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sbf501 on Nov 9, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lisp as the Maxwell’s Equations of Software (2012)

I think a more astute argument would be that Backus-Naur Form is the Maxwells Equations, since that's what the definition of LISP is written in on the 1/2 page screenshot that starts the OP's thesis.

nerpderp82 on Nov 9, 2022 [–]

Guy Steele talk on Metanotation [1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCuZkaaou0Q

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