Dropout Boogie showed up on Captain Beefheart's Safe as Milk in 1967, so in its own way it's the rough contemporary of this found bit of computer history.
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I first learned in 1966 that one could take the condition out of an if statement and store that result in a boolean variable. This idea struck me like a bolt of lightning.
A decade later, after the field of computer science had studied the structure of language, and the methods of processing kinds of languages, I found myself studying compilers once again.
The graduate level course expected us to build the tools we would use to write a compiler. The tool would be a compiler compiler.
In that class we could say compiler compiler and understand exactly what we were talking about. We could also refer to the compiler we used to compile our compiler compiler without any ambiguity. This was not a bolt of lightning, more like the deep rumble of AC power.
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YOUTUBE Q8FftvnTLkU Captain Beefheart's Dropout boogie forked by The Kills in 2003
But the happenstance of chronology here is just luck posing as insight. What really brought it to mind is this lyric:
You love her, adapt her, you love her, adapt her / Adapt her, adapter, adapt her, adapter / ‘n’ what about after that / what about after that
Relevance to FW: associative thinking isn't always rational or calculating, sometimes it's just the way one thing leads to another. FW seems to be a space where these random collisions can be valued as potentially fruitful in ways we can't yet see.