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Animats ◴[17 Nov 24 19:08 UTC] No.42166199[source]▶

"Everything is just" approaches usually result in hammering things that don't fit into fitting. That often ends badly. Computing has been through, at least:

- Everything is just a function (SICP)

- Everything is just an object (Smalltalk, and to some extent Java)

- Everything is just a closure (the original Common LISP object system)

- Everything is just a file of bytes (UNIX)

- Everything is just a database (IBM System/38, Tandem)

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1. hehehheh ◴[17 Nov 24 22:15 UTC] No.42167841[source]▶

>>42166199 #

Everything is just a turing machine after all* **

* modulo infinity

** except a small number of languages that are not

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