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Re:Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012) by abecedarius on Thursday February 12, 2015 @11:17AM (#9039438)
Maxwell's equations in the usual Heaviside form aren't even the most elegant way to write them: http://www.av8n.com/physics/maxwell-ga.htm

I'm curious how people might carry that through the analogy.

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Re:Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012) by MeadowTheory on Thursday February 12, 2015 @02:16PM (#9040711)
I'm rather partial to the differential form version. Something about the neat almost symmetry (in the layman's sense) of the two equations. And how deceptively innocent looking they are.
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Re:Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012) by jheriko on Thursday February 12, 2015 @01:43PM (#9040481)
Einstein tensor notation is amazing. :)
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