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Re:Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 21, 2024 [video] by bobajeff on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @10:26PM (#39624756)
>you may or may not be aware that when he headed vpri, they did some substantial research into some of the other important ways to organize software, including things like array languages, david p. reed's work on spatially replicated computation, and cooperating communities of specialized solvers.

I'm very interested in knowing what array languages they were researching. The only thing I can find is Nile[1] but from the examples it doesn't look like an array language to me.

[1] https://github.com/damelang/nile

Re:Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 21, 2024 [video] by kragen on Thursday March 07, 2024 @12:40AM (#39625395)
nile was the thing i was thinking of, yes