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You have to start small to do big things. Check out this paper for more - I find it highly interesting: http://dynamicaspects.org/papers/PADL2010Final.pdf htt
by pwpwp 14y ago
You have to start small to do big things.
Check out this paper for more - I find it highly interesting:
http://dynamicaspects.org/papers/PADL2010Final.pdf http://dynamicaspects.org/papers/PADL2010Final.pdf
- lispm 14y agoI fear that it does not scale to anything that can be used to develop actual software with. The level of 'equal' is not convincing.
- pwpwp 14y agoI find this funny coming from someone whose handle is "lispm". You probably would have found McCarthy's original Lisp demo¹ unconvincing, too. Think about it. ¹ http://www.paulgraham.com/mcilroy.html http://www.paulgraham.com/mcilroy.html
- swannodette 14y agoActually that demo sounds awesome.
- lispm 14y ago'Symbolic Integration'? Sounds a bit more interesting than 'equal'. Lisp was quickly used to program complex stuff, even on tiny machines. McCarthy's group worked on AI stuff like game playing, theorem proving, language understanding, ... In the early 60s the first self-hosting compiler was a Lisp compiler written in Lisp. Or see the work on symbolic integration by Joel Moses: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/MIT/MIT-LCS-TR-047-corrected-ocr.pdf http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/MIT/MIT-LC...