[Squeak-e] om?

[Alan Grimes]

>Thanks -- I'm always happy to learn of earlier work that's along the same lines. 
>At
>http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-e/2003-February/000028.html
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My appologies, I discovered that message some minutes after sending my 
over-eager message... Indeed, my own text refers to another which must 
be 23 years old now and a concept of a "System Oriented Operating System"

>I write my own credit self-correction to my earlier message as follows:
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>>Oops, I forgot to mention the biggest credit-where-due on this: Udi Shapiro 
>>and the use of nested virtual meta-reflective interpreters in a network in 
>>Flat Concurrent Prolog. He did indeed reify eval and absorb apply (#4) and 
>>he did indeed use source-to-source transformation to simulate 
>>meta-interpretation cheaply (#10).
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>>As I read over my description, I think it's all there in Udi's work (except 
>>for #9, which is obvious anyway). My message is only new imagery for 
>>explaining an old idea. I'm embarrassed. Well, at least the idea I almost 
>>stole is a good one. ;)
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