If anyone can find it, I suggest checking out the Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel talk "50 in 50" where they say 50 words each about 50 different languages. I can't seem to find the slides online, but I know that it was presented at the OOPSLA and and HOPL III acm conferences...

Here's an audio version:

http://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail-episode/342059/episode...

And the direct link to the MP3 to avoid signing up:

http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2007/podcasts/invited-talks/keyn...

awesome, i'll try to blog about this, too :)

I loved it. Stick with it for the first... 15 minutes or so, and you'll realize how clever his talk is.

Here is a pointer to a transcript of this talk:

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf

thanks for submitting! :)

i watched this lecture yesterday. it was on proggit yesterday! ;)