On Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 11:13:36 AM UTC-5, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > 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] <javascript:> Racket https://racket-lang.org/ seems to be where a lot of Lispers go to now. It is used for – language-oriented programming <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language-oriented_programming> – language “workbenches <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_workbench> (Racket came from Scheme - get the naming joke?) I was in TI's 1980s AI Lab that made the TI Lisp Machine. Here's something I did: *Common Lisp relations: an extension of Lisp for logic programming* Philip R. Thrift Proceedings. 1988 International Conference on Computer Languages [abstract <https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Common-Lisp-relations%3A-an-extension-of-Lisp-for-Thrift/31188679f57821fd125be10382e9d41be0d59fd1> ] I'm toying with a new language extension I invented: CLIPjoint Concurrent Logic Implementation of Processes (embedded in Racket) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_workbench> Maybe someone should work on a Racket workbench for quantum programming? Heres's a Racket workbench for Python: - https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cbf5/ee924abd50596657f96f7e1a0c51c9854ed7.pdf etc. LISP, Lisp, and all its descendants are for the language people. @philipthrift -- 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/6e02e101-136e-4076-bee5-5cf8620afb18%40googlegroups.com.
