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Open Cobalt
- eternalban 10y agoFollowing a mention of David Reed's [1] NAMOS [2] in the Alan Kay discussion, and review of the thesis prompted a search for what he's been up to recently. OpenCobalt is the continuation of MIT's Croquet Project [3] and looks quite interesting. [1]: http://www.reed.com/dpr/ http://www.reed.com/dpr/ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Reed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Reed [2]: http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-205.pdf http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-20... [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project I've always been quite impressed with Rich Hickey's disambiguation of identity and state, but as always, nothing new under the sun. The NAMOS thesis (1978) is that and Datomic in one thesis.