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Re:Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) by jacquesm on Friday February 10, 2017 @02:38AM (#13613859)
> Ruby, Erlang, Docker

Erlang is about messaging between processes, a smalltalk object is not a process and I really don't understand why Docker is in that list.

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Re:Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) by noblethrasher on Saturday February 11, 2017 @11:21PM (#13626699)
With respect to the semantics of the system, a Smalltalk object is supposed to be a full Turing machine (sometimes universal, but often times special-purpose), which is the same thing as a process.

I mentioned Docker because of the similarity to the Smalltalk image.

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