It’s becoming increasingly clear that the vast majority of useful AI is not about creating an artificial human personality. It is about creating tools that are endowed with intelligence, and capable of performing far more complex tasks than before.
The Structure of a Programming Language Revolution
Explores the historical and conceptual relationship between engineering and science in programming languages, focusing on the evolution of mixins, method combination, and modular design from systems like Flavors and CLOS, highlighting paradigm shifts and incommensurability.