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The Roots of Lisp

Thinking about a perfect structure for a perfect environment, each symbol representing many possibilities, each key has it’s own purpose and behavior in that context. The only limitations is the scope of the created structures. Lisp had defined a style in programming, with new possibilities for problem solving that takes the programmer out of the box, and brings a new point of view. But finally it is only an interpretation, a translation between human and machine, we may give sense to our perception by the usage of language and writing, this perception can be very complex or very simple, it can always depend on the observer and the given context… for example hardware, only understands voltage, the abstraction of a programming language goes into the process of becoming machine language, which are kind of voltage instructions for the millions of transistors inside a CPU, programming language has been limited by this context, the limitations are hardware dependent. New approaches with newer programming languages gives the amount of space and dimension our abstraction into a determined environment in this case being the hardware. With this comes to scene the talk of other computer models and architectures. What will be the new programming languages for the new computer architectures? What new computer architectures will exist? Biology could be an interesting field of study in relation of the behavior of living cells for programmable purposes. Models such as the Cellular Automata, a model that could be renewed and transformed, merged together with living organisms. Programming living cells…



Some models have their strong basis, they exist as long as they are used, modulation is possible for expansion, but it lays on the existing basis, which is a limitation, because it was created given an existing context and a certain perspective, the model works for that environment and gives sense to itself because the model’s usage for explaining the mentioned environment is arranged by the same rules.


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