- The historical fork: C won on economics, not merit — RISC/commodity PC
ecosystem optimized for C, not for Lisp
- Passepartout's reversal path: verification appliance vertical → FPGA
Lisp μcode → custom ASIC economics
- Lisp for embedded: compile-to-C (ECL, PreScheme), tiny Lisps (uLisp,
FemtoLisp), Lisp-as-macro-generator for C
- Microbiology as Lisp: DNA homoiconicity, hot-reloadable image, auto GC,
interpreted execution, self-modifying source, duck typing, concurrent
real-time GC (apoptosis)
- Biology proves the Lisp model is efficient at planetary scale
