[PD] Pd *is* a programming language!

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Sun Oct 1 08:57:00 CEST 2006


On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, chris clepper wrote:
>>> It's the catalog for the store.
>> It's not directly a data store, because any kinds of things lie between the 
>> data stores of the internet, and the user... if there is even a data store. 
>> Often the servers are used for computations rather than storage.
> I also wanted to recommend a good short story by Jorge Luis Borges. It's an 
> absurd dystopia about information theory, permutations, catalogues, 
> metacatalogues, lies, noise, typos, randomness, and meaning. Well, that's 
> what I remember reading into it.

oops, I sent the mail before finishing it. Here's the title:

   "La Biblioteca de Babel"

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

Here's the version that I remember reading:

   http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html

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