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Programming Languages Will Become OSes

Posted by michael on from the i-run-perl-OS-5 dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "A couple of months ago, at the Lightweight Languages Workshop 2002, Matthew Flat made a premise in his talk: Operating systems and programming languages are the same thing (at least 'mathematically speaking'). I find this interesting and has a lot of truth in it. Both OS and PL are platforms on which other programs run. Both are virtualizing machines. Both make it easier for people to write applications (by providing API, abstractions, frameworks, etc.)"

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  1. Programming languages become OSes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Already happened: Microsoft BASIC ==> Microsoft Windows

  2. Re:Use Emacs by SquadBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yea but you would have to port VIM to get a *good* editor.

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  3. Re:Use Emacs by bperkins · · Score: 5, Funny

    Found in someone's sig file:

    Emacs: It's a nice OS, but to compete with
    Linux or Windows it needs a better text
    editor. - Alexander Duscheleit