tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33892275.post5195260895821870878..comments2014-07-18T22:45:33.564-04:00Comments on erratic semaphore: Communication and ArtAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17427077588637523185noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33892275.post-1193063227393284802006-09-10T23:39:52.176-04:002006-09-10T23:39:52.176-04:00I find describing programming languages on such a ...I find describing programming languages on such a scale is beautiful as well.<br><br>On the prosaic end, you have imperative languages: C, Fortran, Java, machine code... anything and everything that's explicit, with varying levels of beauty in each.<br><br>LISP, even, is prosaic, though it's perhaps of the most elegant sort.<br><br>On the other hand of the spectrum, the poetic, you have Prolog, in which all of the computation is implied. Prolog, perhaps, isn't very beautiful to look at (like C or LISP in their own ways), but conceptually, it's gold.<br><br>Of course, most people don't believe programming is, itself, art. To them I say foo.Jason LaPortehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08628183493411357719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33892275.post-48359504522295237192006-09-10T23:48:32.998-04:002006-09-10T23:48:32.998-04:00Yes, that's exactly it. Lisp as "elegant&...Yes, that's exactly it. Lisp as "elegant" compared to C — ah, to define beauty, that's a topic for another post ;)Kylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16969956393774965833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33892275.post-85717910077815661772006-09-11T01:06:28.584-04:002006-09-11T01:06:28.584-04:00I should caution you in your attempts: one should ...I should caution you in your attempts: one should never chain beauty. :)Jason LaPortehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08628183493411357719noreply@blogger.com