Language Oriented Design and SICP with Hal Abelson

Adam talks to Hal Abelson about the textbook he coauthored in 1984, SICP and why it is still popular and influential today. "The axe [the book] is grinding is that people write programs to do one particular thing. And then the price of that is that a whole lot of software engineering ends up being trying to get out of the hole you dug yourself into because you made a program that was too specific."