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What does “symbolics” mean in this phrase? Why was it considered so important that it’s the first word in the name?
by nico 3y ago
What does “symbolics” mean in this phrase?
Why was it considered so important that it’s the first word in the name?
- giantrobot 3y agoSymbolics was the name of the company. [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics
- nico 3y agoThank you!
- pyinstallwoes 3y agoQuite interesting moments in our history around these “vector spaces” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliCorp_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliCorp_(software)
- nico 3y agoI wonder how many times we have reinvented the wheel Kinda like the Antikythera mechanism, something really old that when discovered in the future seems way ahead of its time
- pyinstallwoes 3y agoTrue, true, after all, isn't Star Wars a documentary? > A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....
- Zambyte 3y agoAs giantrobot said, Symbolics is the name of the company. I'd like to expand more on why. One feature that is relatively unique to Lisp is that it has a symbol type. Lisp code can use this type to represent Lisp code - making macros and dynamic code generation / evaluation a breeze. The name is a reference to this feature of Lisp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression
- nico 3y agoThank you so much, this makes a lot of sense and makes it clear why the Symbolics word was used to name the company.