international lisp conference.

one of the things to notice about programming is, it follows the manufacturing model. what if software takes a little bit of responsibility. software as collaborator never ending installation lost sourcecode self-sustaining, self-repairing code garbage collection is allowing you to write ugly code, noticing the failure and repairing. if a complicated systems needs to live for a long time, living becomes the ultimate goal. autopoetic software and robotics stigmatgy, pierre-paul grassé information hiding: in computer science the principle in information hiding is the hiding of design decision in a computer program that are most likely do change those protecting other parts of the computer program from change if the design decision is changed. softwaredevelopers are the most conservative people on the planet ... they just don't want to change anything, they talk about the salami slice problem. (richard gabriel,conscientious)

the lisp-site is also an example how postprocessing of a conference on the web makes sense: more ballast! story, where pp and text are combined to tell the story nicely with hindsight.