I was looking for some complete open source Lisp programs to review. I wanted to experience the “magic” of Lisp, and bathe in its suffusion of blue [1], while becoming enlightened in the language of the gods.
I found the Hemlock [2] source code, which is an Emacs like clone. I don’t know how good it is, maybe someone else can comment on it. But the source code appeared to be rather clean and well organized.
This guy’s comment [3] on Lisp got me interested in it again: “Lisp is executable XML with a friendlier syntax.“.
And it appears to be like a key-value pair, where the data and code can interplay, and rewrite itself, and execute itself. Sorta, but if this can be done, then this would make for an interesting self-generating AI system. Of course, there are still other ways to skin this cat, like using a database.
I still need to do some more work to reach that enlightened state of Lisp Zen.
Perhaps someone else can share their enlightened states that they’ve reached with Lisp?
Then, I reached a moment of Lisp epiphany.
Where my VR coding system,
Would build computational blocks of pure logic.
A graphical metaphor, for the engineer to define,
Functions, variables, and conditional branching to the nines.
Their results are returned, and fed into something new,
Each rigorous, discrete, and unit tested too.
Like a jigsaw linked together by logical flows and light,
Further enclosed, they add to its computational might.
And Lisp would be the ideal,
To achieve such a metaphorical fusion of thought.
From conception to code,
Between the virtual and the real.
The key-value pairings,
Between the operator and its operands,
All enclosed by parentheses,
Bringing closure, and harmony to its lands.
Less is required, the tedious keyboards of our day,
Instead, on the VR you would tinker and play,
Like a meticulous craftsman of another age,
Building until perfect, each module of the sage.
The world’s combined intellectual prowess,
Would be available at your needs,
Collected in a public digital library,
The modules and code, for you to integrate into your feed.
And then it would run, the great engine of light,
Bringing forth its magic, and manifesting in twilight.
Running on pure thought, and reliable to the nines,
The Engineer would sit back, and marvel at his find.
And then I awoke from my dream,
Suffusion complete.
I found the Hemlock [2] source code, which is an Emacs like clone. I don’t know how good it is, maybe someone else can comment on it. But the source code appeared to be rather clean and well organized.
This guy’s comment [3] on Lisp got me interested in it again: “Lisp is executable XML with a friendlier syntax.“.
And it appears to be like a key-value pair, where the data and code can interplay, and rewrite itself, and execute itself. Sorta, but if this can be done, then this would make for an interesting self-generating AI system. Of course, there are still other ways to skin this cat, like using a database.
I still need to do some more work to reach that enlightened state of Lisp Zen.
Perhaps someone else can share their enlightened states that they’ve reached with Lisp?
[1] https://xkcd.com/224/
[2] https://github.com/bluelisp/hemlock
[3] http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html