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One of our oldest languages meets one of our newest sciences in this episode, as we talk with Professor Christian Schafmeister, an award-winning nanotech researcher who's been developing a language and a design suite to help research the future molecular machines. In this episode Christian gives us a quick chemistry lesson to explain what his research is trying to achieve, then we get into the software that's doing it: A new flavour of Common Lisp. But why Lisp? What advantages does a 60 year old language design offer? How does he strike a balance between high-level language features and the need for exceptional performance and parallelism? And what tricks does his development environment have that modern IDEs could still learn a thing or two from? -- Clasp (the Lisp): Cando (the design language): The Feynman Prize: Alphafold: More on LEaP: Interactive Development of Crash Bandicoot: Christian's Research Group: Kris on Twitter: Kris on LinkedIn: -- 0:00 Intro 1:20 Podcast 51:45 Outro #programming #software #lisplang #commonlisp #nanotech
