  "The von Neumann vicious circle" means that non-von Neumann computer
architectures cannot be developed because of the lack of widely available and
effective non-von Neumann languages. New languages cannot be created because of
lack of conceptual foundations for non-von Neumann architectures. The reason is
that programming languages are high-level abstract isomorphic copies of von
Neumann computer architectures. This constitutes the current paradigm in
Computer Science. The paradigm is equivalent to the predominant view that
computations on higher order objects (functionals) can be done only
symbolically, i.e. by term rewriting. The paper is a short introduction to the
papers arXiv:1501.03043 and arXiv:1510.02787 trying to break the paradigm by
introducing a framework that may be seen as a higher order functional HDL
(Hardware Description Language).
