If I'm not mistaken he also mentions LINQ wich is a wonderful extensions of C# and the .NET Framework. It feels like LINQ and Clojure could be a interesting match.
That was what I thought he was aiming for to but then he, out of nowhere, suddenly praised PHP. I'm 99% sure that I don't have to check out PHP again to see if it's really something about it that I've missed.
Yes, the PHP "language" sucks. But that isn't what matters: From a practical standpoint, it's good for getting things done.
The reason? Almost zero deployment complexity. You can take Joe Web Designer off the street, give him SFTP (or, more likely, FTP) credentials, and have him modifying your site in minutes.
I love PHP, but I'm in programming like a shade-tree mechanic: I just want a large enough hammer to make something work, I don't care how pretty the end result is.
Wonderful slides! I hope there will be video further on.
I didn't like "It is critical to remember that play is not exercise." and to improve it I would like to add something like
"But it's totally fine if your exercise feels like play. If your exercise is fun it's so much easier to do".
I'll get straight to the elephant in the room and I'm even ignorant enough to ask it before I tried to find out myself (though at gun point I would lean more towards one that the other). Is it homoiconic?
Unfortunately it's divided in chapters without any indexing so it can get a bit confusing since you most probably aren't going to be able to watch them in the order he presented them. Still worth it!
Neat but it seems the pixel plotting could be optimized but I guess I should keep my mouth shut until I've tried to draw that big with my http://plea.se/me/leif/canvas_leif.html
It depends on how many servers you are willing to run. When you have 500 million users, and a decent amount of them, accesses your site multiple times a day, CPU cycles per request starts to count.
