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In my view, GPGPU is much closer to contemporary Connection Machines, which used Lisp machines for their front-ends. Now the front-end is x86-64 machines runnin
by mepian 4y ago
In my view, GPGPU is much closer to contemporary Connection Machines, which used Lisp machines for their front-ends. Now the front-end is x86-64 machines running Python instead of Lisp.
Guy Steele wrote the first edition of Common Lisp the Language, the original de facto standard, while working for the makers of Connection Machines.
- larve 4y agoSimilar. So much of llm is about language design and leveraging being able to quickly manipulate semi formal dsls that I think lisp is a brilliant “driver”, so much more so than then current “string templates and regex parsing” approaches.