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   by allenwb 6y ago

   Dan Ingalls talks about Notetaker/Smalltalk-78 in his forthcoming HOPL 4 paper which should be available within the next two weeks. There were only a few Notetaker machines built and apparently they were quite slow and not really very
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   by allenwb 9y ago

   That document is an incomplete working DRAFT for the next edition of the ECMAScript standard. Don't assume that the current snapshot is feature complete.
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   by allenwb 16y ago

   Interestingly, the 2nd argument to Object.create was specifically designed (by me) so that an object's "shape" could be statically determined. If the descriptor is all literals (they usually are) then each Object.create call site is essent