In this episode I talk with Dan Friedman. Dan gives shares stories of his history working with Lisp, including topics such as the power of Lisp, and tips for introducing a language.Our Guest, Dan FriedmanDan’s Faculty PageConference AnnouncementsElm Europe will be taking place June 8th and 9th in Paris, France. Visit http://elmeurope.org/ for more information and to register. Erlang User Conference 2017 will be taking place June 8th and 9th in Stockholm, Sweden. Visit http://www.erlang-factory.com/euc2017 for more information and to register.ZuriHac 2017 will be taking place in Zurich on the 9th-11th of June. For more information, and to register visit https://zurihac.info/Oslo Elm Day is a one-day conference about Elm taking place June 10th in Oslo, Norway. Visit https://osloelmday.no/ for more information and to register.Curry On Barcelona will be taking place June 19-20th. For more information, visit http://www.curry-on.org/2017/.O’Reilly Fluent Conference will be taking place June 19–22, 2017 in San Jose, California. Visit http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/61309 to find out more and to register, and use code USRG for 20% off.EuroClojure will be taking place in Berlin, Germany on July 20th & 21st. Visit http://2017.euroclojure.org/ for more information and to keep updated.BusConf will be taking place the 3rd-5th of August in Frankfurt, Germany. Registration is open, and more information can be found at http://www.bus-conf.org/.The Strange Loop coming! It will be held in St. Louis, MO on September 28-30, 2017 at the Peabody Opera House. To submit your CfP, visit http://thestrangeloop.com/.Open FSharp will be taking place the 28th-29th of September in San Fransisco, California. Visit openfsharp.org for more information and to register.LambdaWorld will be taking place in Cadiz, Spain on October 26th and 27th. For more information visit and to keep updated visit http://www.lambda.world/.If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.AnnouncementsSome of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein,Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you canfind out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.Topics [@About DanDan’s early entry into teachingElliott OrganickMAD (Michigan Algorithmic Decoder) languageMulticsLISP 1.5 Programmer’s ManualIndiana UniversityThe Little Lisper originsSelectricSmith CoronaPDP-11Ben SchneidermanGetting TenureDavid WiseCONS should not Evaluate its ArgumentsMitch WandEssentials of Programming LanguagesKanrenOleg KiselyovGraspBill CohaganGropeBob BaronIBM 360What about Lisp that appeals now and then to DanBrian SmithPlannerCarl HewittEugene CharniakGerald SussmanConniverScheme Report (1975)Higher Order FunctionsCoda languageBob FilmanWilliam ByrdSimplicity as the over arching modelminiKanrenPrologDan’s 60th Birthday CelebrationChung-chieh ShanThe Reasoned SchemerRichard SalterImplementing languages from scratch in a couple of eveningsDick KieburtzMarigoldPower of macros in LispMatthias FelleisenBuilding an Operating System in a weekRacketJason HemannµKanrenAdvice and tips for teachingConvince students in first two lectures they will be changed2 or 3 cases max when dealing with recursionAckermann functionCarl EastlundThe Little ProverDavid Christiansen“Little Book” in the works on dependent typesPie languageAs always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.