Re: Unix Nightmare

Posted by Arlo Barnes on Oct 22, 2016; 3:45am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Unix-Nightmare-tp7587974p7587981.html

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 8:00 PM, Steven A Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:

Prolog dreams involving natural language understanding, and eventually VR and mixed reality dreams.  In fact the latter two I would say I still have, though they are polluted/mixed with myth-dreams based in various archetypal tropes. 

I just finished reading Snow Crash for the first time and was struck by Hiro's (well, Lagos') assertion that programming languages are unlike contemporary natural languages (and for the purposes of the story, like Sumerian), that they access a more primal part of the brain. I do not think this is true, but it is an interesting counterfactual reality to explore.

-Arlo James Barnes

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