Introduction to Lisp

UPDATE: I can't attend tomorrow, but if anyone would like to talk about this topic, ever, anywhere, please contact me; I would love to chat with you about it! My apologies...

Intended audience: Programmers unfamiliar with Lisp
Interested folks will receive a “Lisp Gift Bag DVD”!

After presenting this a few times at Barcamp and constantly revising it, I think I've finally learned my lesson: 45 minutes is not nearly enough time to cover things to the depth the way that I would like to cover them.

My original intention had been that if you are looking for that “insanely great” used car salesmen experience to convince you to learn Lisp, I have to tell you now “sorry”, because you won’t find it here (a cool sales pitch wouldn’t keep you around for long, anyway). Based on my experience, it seems like it would serve you better to be prepared to deliver *at least* some level of "See all this cool stuff you can do!", since that is really the best thing that *can* fit into the allotted time. That said, here is what you get:

You’ve got me; some who is, to put it mildly, obsessed with studying computation. I love learning, and if you do too you might be interested to attend.

I would like to share with you whatever I can offer, in whatever format makes the most sense. Here are some options:

1. Presentation format: I will go over a pre-written presentation that sort of walks through a number of elements of Lisp. This is the "cool stuff" pitch.
2. Pure question and answer format.
3. Playing in the REPL: write and execute code on the spot.
4. Code review. I’ve got a bunch of code that would could examine and run.

The gift bag includes:
1. Papers.
2. Interpreters.
3. Videos.