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> but many people have tried and failed to come up with something better Can you give any examples? I'd be interested.
by tonyonodi 12y ago
> but many people have tried and failed to come up with something better
Can you give any examples? I'd be interested.
- lmm 12y agoCORBA. Java RMI. EJB. To a certain extent Erlang (which may yet succeed), or the various Lisp S-expression serializations. (My view is that turing-complete code is the wrong abstraction and we need to draw an explicit distinction between serializable code and non-serializable code, but that would require a programming-language-level solution and a rewrite of approximately everything. Sooner or later I'll get around to writing a language based on this notion)