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Art of the propagator It is like a discovering a new programming paradigm. Something new and different, not a Lisp, not a Datalog, weirdly distributed, with in
by a-saleh 7y ago
Art of the propagator
It is like a discovering a new programming paradigm. Something new and different, not a Lisp, not a Datalog, weirdly distributed, with interesting properties, but powerful. There are adjacent things, BLOOM project and Eve language seems to have discovered something simmilar, and Edward Kmett working on his new language is using propagators quite heavily.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/755c/48fd10aa303497ef849977c36529c0bb09ff.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/755c/48fd10aa303497ef849977...
Sci-fy to go with it: probably Ted Chiangs Stories of your Life (or its movie adaptation Arrival)
Out of the tarpit
I thing this is a paper that might have lead to Clojure, React, Elm, e.t.c ... but not really, a weird parallel reality where we really like reactive relational databases.
http://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf http://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf
- LargeWu 7y agoTed Chiang's work was the first thing that came to mind for me. "Understand" is a breathtaking piece of work, about a man whose brain rapidly gains unimaginable computing power following a series of treatments.
- 7thaccount 7y ago"Understand" was phenomenal!