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1. A new computing model, similar to how combinators work.
2. A programming language which produces expressions involving these combinators.
3. An operating system built on the above.
4. A cloud computing environment built on the above.
Sorry, but while interesting, this sounds a little too ambitious, even by HN standards :)
So let me get this straight. This project is going to define 1. A new computing model, similar to how combinators work. 2. A programming language which produces expressions involving these combinators. 3. An operating system built on the above. 4. A cloud computing environment built on the above. Sorry, but while interesting, this sounds a little too ambitious, even by HN standards :)
So let me get this straight. This project is going to define 1. A new computing model, similar to how combinators work. 2. A programming language which produces expressions involving these combinators. 3. An operating system built on the above. 4. A cloud computing environment built on the above. Sorry, but while interesting, this sounds a little too ambitious, even by HN standards :)
There's code that you can run and can play with. It may sound super far fetched (and it is), but the guy behind it is putting sweat into it.
This is either a very elaborate joke or the future of computing.
They had me going in the Nock spec until "We should note that in Nock and Hoon, 0 (pronounced "yes") is true, and 1 ("no") is false. Why? It's fresh, it's different, it's new. And it's annoying. And it keeps you on your toes. And it's also just intuitively right."
"As you may remember, to decrement 'a' we need to count up to it."
This is either a very elaborate joke or the future of computing.
They had me going in the Nock spec until "We should note that in Nock and Hoon, 0 (pronounced "yes") is true, and 1 ("no") is false. Why? It's fresh, it's different, it's new. And it's annoying. And it keeps you on your toes. And it's also just intuitively right."
So let me get this straight. This project is going to define 1. A new computing model, similar to how combinators work. 2. A programming language which produces expressions involving these combinators. 3. An operating system built on the above. 4. A cloud computing environment built on the above. Sorry, but while interesting, this sounds a little too ambitious, even by HN standards :)
http://doc.urbit.org/doc/hoon/tut/1/
Reading this feels a lot like dropping acid.
That being said, I'm curious what will come out of this.
This is either a very elaborate joke or the future of computing.
They had me going in the Nock spec until "We should note that in Nock and Hoon, 0 (pronounced "yes") is true, and 1 ("no") is false. Why? It's fresh, it's different, it's new. And it's annoying. And it keeps you on your toes. And it's also just intuitively right."
There is one ground truth, origin, fixed point like the North Star: zero. There are an infinite number of possible falsehoods: all nonzero numbers. But Urbit chooses 1 as the canonical false.
Is there an EAP for "Urbit in Action?"