guy steele and richard gabriel: 50 in 50 (if you wanna feel the difference between radio broadcast and podcast, there it is: a conference speak is a multimedia event)

Heh, but what is programming, and what role do programming languages play in that process? We have learned a lot over the last five decades ... fortran, pascal, one and zero, and funky syntax ...

kathy sierra's talk also at oopsla and later in berlin (at least i know now what i can expect), yet there is more: the mythical man month author frederick brooks and john mccarthy: on elephant2000. also featuring pattie maes ... need to listen to