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:[email protected] ** -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/20190929161323.GB12070%40tau1.ceti.pl.
