Nano-Blog : June 8, 2025

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§ June 11, 2025

• Lisp Flavored Erlang

  Like BASIC, Python and FORTH, Lisp is more a family of languages than a single specification. Compare and contrast to C and C++, whose definitions are (largely) rigidly defined. The joy of C, is ubiquity, simplicity and reverse compatibilty — all features descending from it's tight specification. But the joy of Lisp is it can morph to fit an application, system or situation.

  And this is part of why Lisp Flavored Erlang is so interesting. Lisp is easily adapted to target the BEAM Virtual Machine. This gives you the "Non-Stop" features of Erlang and it's virtual machine combined with the expressiveness of Lisp. Well worth checking out.

  #erlang #lfe #lisp

• All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

  I like to think (and
  the sooner the better!)
  of a cybernetic meadow
  where mammals and computers
  live together in mutually
  programming harmony
  like pure water
  touching clear sky.
  
  I like to think
  (right now, please!)
  of a cybernetic forest
  filled with pines and electronics
  where deer stroll peacefully
  past computers
  as if they were flowers
  with spinning blossoms.
  
  I like to think
  (it has to be!)
  of a cybernetic ecology
  where we are free of our labors
  and joined back to nature,
  returned to our mammal
  brothers and sisters,
  and all watched over
  by machines of loving grace.

  #poetry #Richard-Brautigan

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