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supersillyus on Sept 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: “I hate almost all software” — Ryan Dahl

FYI, in 1988, Self (a dynamic, prototype-based, garbage-collected language that had a JIT) existed. I'm not sure how it handled concurrency, though.

briantrice on Sept 30, 2011 [–]

Not well, unfortunately. Neither does it handle errors well. It doesn't have proper closures, either. I love it, but readily admit it's a giant research demo.

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