Conversation

Notices

1. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2019 16:22:41 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

   Some of the major sources of inspiration for #Spritely:
   - ActivityPub (unsurprisingly)
   - the E programming language https://librsync.github.io/rdiff.html
   - The "Rees thesis" showing that ocaps are actually just sane lexical scope behavior http://mumble.net/~jar/pubs/secureos/secureos.html
   - tahoe-lafs https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs
   - freenet https://freenetproject.org/pages/documentation.html
   - MUDs/MOOs/etc http://www.hayseed.net/MOO/
   - SPKI/SDSI http://world.std.com/~cme/html/spki.html
   - The Agoric Papers http://e-drexler.com/d/09/00/AgoricsPapers/agoricpapers.html https://agoric.com/references/

   • Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2019 16:24:28 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

     in reply to

     And, of course, SICP has helped a lot https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/ https://archive.org/details/mit_ocw_sicp

   • SwindlerOfInsanity (swindlerofinsanity@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2019 10:07:02 UTC SwindlerOfInsanity

     in reply to

     @cwebber
     You know half of these project names sound like eldrich spells the other half sound like werid names for old super computers

     Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.