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discreteevent on Aug 29, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reaching the Unix philosophy's logical extreme wit...

I think that this was what Alan Kay was saying when he said that web pages should be objects (where he had previously said that objects are virtual machines all the way down)

dekhn on Aug 29, 2023 [–]

Huh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project

When I say VM, I mean, "VMWare-style VMs" not "VMs that run a language the same way on multiple platforms".

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