28 Jul '13, 3pm

Real Metaprogramming: Experimental Businesses As A Service

Writing code which modifies a running program is all well and good, but what Ruby offers you in that department is piddling and pathetic compared to the opportunities of any real Lisp. I struggled mightily to write tools for (semi-)automated refactoring, for example, while Clojure already has things like kibit . But even Lisp falls short of the meta-tastic heights of meta (or should that be middles ?) you can achieve when you get algorithms to cook up algorithms for you. It's a good way to win at Starcraft and a good way to handle network traffic as well. And with people using algorithms to fuck up stock markets and overprice books , it's only a matter of time before venture capitalists realize that startups don't necessarily have to involve humans at all. So I'm looking for a technical co-founder. I want to build a system which reduces Y Combinator to a shell script. The ...

Full article: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2013/07/real-metaprogram...

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