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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. Ridiculous by PhysicsGenius · · Score: 1, Troll
    The operating system is the "government" of the computer. (It's a totalitarian dictatorship, but still.). Programming languages are...languages. Would you say that "English and Democracy are practically the same thing, look there's an English word for 'vote'!"

    Whoever gave this talk needs to go back to CS 101.

  2. bullshit by mattr · · Score: 0, Troll

    this guy is confused, sorry.

    I wouldn't mind having a third as many articles per day if they had more clues and less cheerleading.

    Or is this a mutual masturbation and crawling into our navels society? Feh.