[FoRK] "Super Tuesday" only "semi-great," Texans claim

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 01:16:17PM -0600, Jeff Bone wrote:

> Hmm, I dunno if I'll ever be able to consider a stack language truly  
> functional...

Stack machines and threaded languages have a lot things going for them.
Message-passing OOP is also easy there.

We're used to gigatransistors, but it actually only takes 10 ktransistors
to build a really lavish stack CPU. What for? Think nanoscale. Or inkjet.
Especially, bottom up nanoscale. Or, if you want to package as much parallelism into
a given bushelful of logic.

This is not really engineering emergence in a massively parallel asynchronous
system, but there's a continuum from here to there.
 
> But in any case, are you actually saying I should actually look at this?

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