During my software engineering stint at Lucent, I learned a few tricks. Robust Process Automation is an imaginative, inexpensive, set of scripts, working as a virtual state machine to control software administration tasks. There is even a Lucent patent I was a part of. Also a colleague developed an artificial intelligence system, using simple and free software languages.
Now I am studying Scheme in Classical Mechanics. It is very interesting. At the same time an idea is finally settling in my mind.
A succession of simple instructions takes a life of their own. Instead of the command and control style of the C programs at Lucent, I see potential in the bottom up process of Scheme, I want to get surprised by the software, not upset because the result was not the one I wanted. Teleological prejudices, I believe, hamper discovery in software production.
I am influenced by the more life like software presented in "Principles of Biological Autonomy," by the late Francisco José Varela. The Lucent library at Indian Hill, threw it away, and the company threw me away. Maybe there is a message there.
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