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Reminds me a little of Alan Kay's VPRI paper on 'Worlds: Controlling the Scope of Side Effects'. http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2008001_worlds.pdf http://www.vpri.o
by argimenes 12y ago
Reminds me a little of Alan Kay's VPRI paper on 'Worlds: Controlling the Scope of Side Effects'.
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2008001_worlds.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2008001_worlds.pdf
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoIf you read to the end of the paper, we talk a very little bit about branching time as future work so one could explore multiple "possible" worlds simultaneously (technically easy, the problem is UX). Also see Alexander Repinning's "conversational programming" paper [1] from last year's Onward. [1] http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/papers/PDF/Conversational-Programming%20VL-hcc2011.pdf http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/papers/PDF/Conversational-... But now that you mention it, I should definitely refer to this work also!