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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. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP MUTHA F U C K A S !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    my name is ralph.

  2. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ha! Ha!

  3. Posted on osnews.com several days ago. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...so no news here. *moving along*

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