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Re:Plunder and Urbit by mhuesch on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @02:08PM (#37066434)
sort of, in theory, but in most practical lisp/scheme implementations, certain values are opaque primitives. often functions are opaque. hashmaps, etc, are often primitives which don't have a "dependable formal representation". this means they cannot be e.g. serialized and coherently transmitted between processes.

Urbit solved this with nouns, which is arguably a substantial innovation. PLAN (in the author's view, which I find convincing) improves on this: https://git.sr.ht/~plan/plunder/tree/master/item/doc/PLAN.md

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Re:Plunder and Urbit by brabel on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:32AM (#37074754)
This looks really weird to me. I very much doubt this can be made into something practically useful.

Have you seen Unison[1]?

Unison seems like a much more interesting approach to making functions "serializable" and functional programming acquiring distributed capabilities almost transparently.

[1] https://www.unisonweb.org/

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Re:Plunder and Urbit by pyinstallwoes on Friday August 11, 2023 @12:00AM (#37084971)
Hashed computations including functions distributed over something like DHT is a great concept with a lot of potential for a new form of computation.
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