@aeva it's also relational (in the einstein sense), which allows you (and the compiler) to radically shift perspective with few changes. you can invert a function just by reading it from the outside in. it's particularly well suited to graph processing. in soufflé, a datalog dialect, a toposort is 3 lines. a SCC analysis is less than 10 lines. a raytracer should be similarly dense. and you're thinking data oriented rather than functional - good for entity component systems. for audio:
@lritter the other angle that comes to mind at the moment is to use this as a sequencer, which isn't really obvious how that would work except that datalog feels markovian, and markov chains etc make sense to me as a procedural sequence generator and I've had some good results using them to generate interesting midi streams
@petergleick there needs to be a special 100% tax specifically for Elon Musk. If every billionaire is a policy failure (and it is), I don't know what to say about a trillionaire. Taxes seem kinder than any other reasonable alternative, though (but, if he won't be taxed, I guess we should consider the other alternatives, because a trillionaire that's also responsible for the deaths of 600,000 people, so far, mostly children cannot be a allowed to exist).
@lritter I'm not any less tired but I took another stab at trying to see it. As I understand it, datalog patches describe the explicit and implicit connections between things, and high level audio synthesis is often described as a set of connections, between modules, so I could see that angle working since the math is pulled out of focus, but the implicit connections part is still fuzzy to me. Is this more or less along the lines of what you have in mind?
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