[a-saleh]

Art of the propagator

It is like a discovering a new programming paradigm. Something new and different, not a Lisp, not a Datalog, weirdly distributed, with interesting properties, but powerful. There are adjacent things, BLOOM project and Eve language seems to have discovered something simmilar, and Edward Kmett working on his new language is using propagators quite heavily.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/755c/48fd10aa303497ef849977...

Sci-fy to go with it: probably Ted Chiangs Stories of your Life (or its movie adaptation Arrival)

Out of the tarpit

I thing this is a paper that might have lead to Clojure, React, Elm, e.t.c ... but not really, a weird parallel reality where we really like reactive relational databases.

http://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf

[LargeWu]

Ted Chiang's work was the first thing that came to mind for me. "Understand" is a breathtaking piece of work, about a man whose brain rapidly gains unimaginable computing power following a series of treatments.

[7thaccount]

"Understand" was phenomenal!