S2E9 - re:Clojure Interviews 9 - Stephen Wolfram
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X Equals X Plus One Loops Forever
When i first was designing as n p, theorredical computer scientist would say to me, you know, just think about x equals x plus your language can't possibly work. It's just going to blow up. X equals x plus one loops forever. But it turns out it doesn't matter. Because the things that we humans care about don't fall into that little trap of x equalsx plus one. And there are valuation orders which aren't useful. A depth first evaluation reference frame for the universe is profoundly not useful. They're not a very that's not our common experience of space and time and things. I suspect transducers are a larence transform of this standard evaluation
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