John McCarthy will be giving a talk about the history of Lisp, at OOPSLA 2008 (The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications), an event that I was already wishing I could attend. Is this the 'official' celebration, I wonder? Object-Oriented Programming owes a lot to Lisp, but then isn't Lisp so much more than just OO?

M.J.D (the author of Higher Order Perl) is apparently one of the keynote speakers. I'm beginning to wish I can still make it somehow.