/prog/rider's secret society

We should create a club/lodge for programmers. If stonemasons created one many years ago just because they knew how to carve stupid stones and build some basic structures, why we still don't have one?
This is what we need:
◦ A symbol.
◦ A secret handshake.
◦ A set of rules.
◦ An unknown leader.
◦ An unknown sub-leader.
◦ A library with exceptional computer books, a printed version of world4ch's /prog/ (aka The Old Testament), ancient computers, and other relics.
◦ A list of heretic languages carved in stone.

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I apologize for the late response.

I've been pretty busy and distracted between meeting a milestone at work and being ill with the flu, and I'm just catching up on these threads now.

I would like to see a way to take a dataset - an image, or, say, spectrographic data, or a sound file, and apply mathematical transformations to it just by issuing some simple commands. Maybe have a "math mode" to plug in equations and an "English mode" where you could name the mathematical functions.

I too have done industry work in computer vision. When I was doing R&D, I had success using Octave to test out my mathematical models and algorithms. I also used AWK to transform text datasets.

It's not LISP, but it worked well for what I needed.

Machine learning and a memory of which algorithms chained together worked in similar situations would definitely be an asset. Is that workable?

Now this would definitely be useful.