# 7th European Lisp Symposium

DevFeed: [7th European Lisp Symposium](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/7th-european-lisp-symposium-34624.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tapoueh.org/conf/7th-european-lisp-symposium/>)

Published: 2014-05-04T22:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Dimitri Fontaine](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dimitri-fontaine.md>)

Topics: [Lisp](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/lisp.md>), [Common Lisp](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/common-lisp.md>), [Programming language](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming-language.md>), [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>)

Tags: [language](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/language.md>), [lightning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/lightning.md>), [lisp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/lisp.md>), [modern](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/modern.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [programming-language](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming-language.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [rewrite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rewrite.md>), [switching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/switching.md>), [talk](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/talk.md>)

## AI overview

A lightning talk at the 7th European Lisp Symposium discusses rewriting pgloader from Python in Common Lisp. The stated motivation was wanting a modern programming language.

## Source excerpt

A lightning talk about pgloader and why I chose to rewrite it enterily, switching from Python to Common Lisp. TL;DR -- I wanted a Modern Programming Language.