On Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 11:13:36 AM UTC-5, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 04:56:00PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 12:35:53PM -0700, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > > > For Lisp(s)/Scheme/Racket fans: > > > > [...] > > > > > > Other quantum/Lisp refs? > > > > PicoLisp: > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picolisp > > > > As the name suggests, they really are after quantum effects. It is > > just Lisp part which does not fit such sizes very well (i.e., too big). > > Well, my snark remark have been written because something in me told > me you were asking with tongue in cheek. And maybe because I consider > subject to be either old and dead or very very futuristic. > > On top of this, my horoscope told me I would be required to be > creative about something I have no idea about. > > MHO on > > Overally, LISP family of languages are nice fit for experiments with > language extension - simple syntax makes it easy to create one's own > libraries which then look like part of the language themselves. And > macros. Original implementation of object oriented system is quite > often written as loadable library in LISP. Which means, one can extend > language on a whim. It also means, there may be many competing > extensions, each doing only some of what I need. Or > half-implemented... > > This also means, one can program one's code in, say, LISP, as > usual. When some clever folk comes up with idea, all references to car > and cdr will be updated with their quantum counterparts inside newly > created LISP interpreter. In about... ten years from now? I guess they > will have one such flight computer onboard of manned Moon > mission... It should be so much easier to dodge asteroids, since an > asteroid would never know which way the ship went, until they met. > > (I use "LISP" with meaning "one of LISP family", so you would probably > want to substitude LISP with any of your preferrence: LISP, Autolisp, > R7RS, CL, Elisp, scm or what have you). > > MHO off > > -- > Regards, > Tomasz Rola > > -- >
** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** > ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** > ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** > ** ** > ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomas...@bigfoot.com <javascript:> Racket https://racket-lang.org/ seems to be where a lot of Lispers go to now. It is used for – language-oriented programming <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language-oriented_programming> – language “workbenches <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_workbench> (Racket came from Scheme - get the naming joke?) I was in TI's 1980s AI Lab that made the TI Lisp Machine. Here's something I did: *Common Lisp relations: an extension of Lisp for logic programming* Philip R. Thrift Proceedings. 1988 International Conference on Computer Languages [abstract <https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Common-Lisp-relations%3A-an-extension-of-Lisp-for-Thrift/31188679f57821fd125be10382e9d41be0d59fd1> ] I'm toying with a new language extension I invented: CLIPjoint Concurrent Logic Implementation of Processes (embedded in Racket) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_workbench> Maybe someone should work on a Racket workbench for quantum programming? Heres's a Racket workbench for Python: - https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cbf5/ee924abd50596657f96f7e1a0c51c9854ed7.pdf etc. LISP, Lisp, and all its descendants are for the language people. @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/6e02e101-136e-4076-bee5-5cf8620afb18%40googlegroups.com.
