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Lucid – the origin story

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Re: Lucid – the origin story

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Zélus is a modern language inspired in part by Lucid. I have been intrigued by this language, but have yet to get the time to try it out. https://zelus.di.ens.fr/

Zelus is partly inspired by a language called Lucid Synchrone which is not the language discussed in the original article.

Re: Lucid – the origin story

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Lucid represents to me a huge untapped area of growth for new programming languages. It's been a huge inspiration on the DSP language I've been working on: https://intonal.io/ (currently working on more examples and documentation)

I encourage anyone interested to read Bill Wadge's book on Lucid: http://worrydream.com/refs/Wadge%20-%20Lucid,%20the%20Datafl...

and check out one of the implementations of the language https://code.google.com/archive/p/plucid/ or https://github.com/billwadge/pyLucid

It's an eye opening experience

Re: Lucid – the origin story

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is quite an overused name.

TIL it literally means "shiny", so if one wished to name a company or project after the new shiny, it would be something like Novum Lucidum? (Incidentally, the "new idea manure spreader" is a thing.)

from lux, Latin for light. Similarly, lucent, pellucid, lucifer (light bearer).

Re: Lucid – the origin story

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post #5

Zélus is a modern language inspired in part by Lucid. I have been intrigued by this language, but have yet to get the time to try it out. https://zelus.di.ens.fr/

Zelus is partly inspired by a language called Lucid Synchrone which is not the language discussed in the original article.

Lucid Synchrome was inspired by this Lucid
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