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		vacuity 57 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Unix Executable as a Smalltalk Method [pdf] Probably a lot of overlap with the links upthread, but [0] also goes over Unix and Smalltalk (and I only just realized is also by Stephen Kell). [0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2525528.2525534

sph 57 days ago [–]

This quote from Dan Ingalls is also relevant:

"An operating system is a collection of things that don’t fit into a language. There shouldn’t be one."

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