Guy L. Steele, W. Daniel Hillis
1986 · Proceedings of the 1986 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming - LFP '86
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If you told an alien visitor from Vega—or a computer architect with a time machine from 1980—that an Nvidia GPU was built to be a language on a chip, I wonder what they’d infer about the nature of that language? I don’t think they’d describe CUDA. Something more APL-like, I’d imagine. EDIT: Maybe … https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/319838.319870
Wow, this is great! I'm happy to see "Connection Machine Lisp: Fine-Grained Parallel Symbolic Processing"[0] in here, free at last. I actually bought that paper in my undergrad CS days just because it's so intriguing (IMHO). [0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/319838.319870
This should get you started; just some links I had laying around: Connection Machine Lisp: fine-grained parallel symbolic processing; Steele, Hillis https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/319838.319870 I'm biased because this one is effectively "What if we make an APL Lisp?" Design of a LISP-based microprocessor; Steele, Sussman https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/359024.359031 This one is one of the hundreds that came out of the Mead/Conway book. Basically, it's a LISP-based VLSI chip. Turtles and defense; Sobalvarro, Klotz https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1056602.1056608 As 'donhopkins put it: It was Leigh Klotz's sarcastic response to a Defense Department questionnaire to Terrapin…
about how their technology could be used to kill people. He proposed deploying a swarm of thousands of LOGO turtles to crawl around the battlefield in mesmerizing geometric patterns, and stab the enemy with a quick succession of PENUP and PENDOWN commands (proving once again that the pen is mightier than the sword). (For more information: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... )
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