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From: clipka
Subject: If the universe was a programming language...
Date: 2 Oct 2015 17:10:10
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... then it would be Haskell. Because apparently it uses lazy evaluation.


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From: Orchid Win7 v1
Subject: Re: If the universe was a programming language...
Date: 3 Oct 2015 05:05:56
Message: <560f9a74$1@news.povray.org>
On 02/10/2015 10:10 PM, clipka wrote:
> ... then it would be Haskell. Because apparently it uses lazy evaluation.

Well, it would certainly explain the whole "doesn't exist until you 
observe it" thing...


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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: If the universe was a programming language...
Date: 5 Oct 2015 08:40:08
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clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> ... then it would be Haskell. Because apparently it uses lazy evaluation.

but does it sound as good as a Lisp organ?  don't think so...


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From: Le Forgeron
Subject: Re: If the universe was a programming language...
Date: 6 Oct 2015 01:35:06
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Le 05/10/2015 14:38, nemesis a écrit :
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> ... then it would be Haskell. Because apparently it uses lazy evaluation.
>
> but does it sound as good as a Lisp organ?  don't think so...
>

The universe might be in haskell, but eukariote organisms are in lisp: 
what else than membrane would be all theses parentheses ?

Looking carefully, their replication are also like the handling of trees 
and sequences in lisp.


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From: Orchid Win7 v1
Subject: Re: If the universe was a programming language...
Date: 6 Oct 2015 06:15:16
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On 06/10/2015 06:35 AM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> The universe might be in haskell, but eukariote organisms are in lisp:
> what else than membrane would be all theses parentheses ?

Maybe it's Liskell?

https://github.com/haskell-lisp/liskell/blob/master/LskPrelude/LskPrelude.lsk


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