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balquhidder on Nov 7, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why do we need modules at all? (2011)

Is Urbit a real thing, or an elaborate hoax?

reirob on Nov 8, 2014 | [–]

It made me curious too. Found this HN post about urbit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6438320

reirob on Nov 8, 2014 | | [–]

And then I found these pages related to Urbit:|

[0] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3855 [1] http://doc.urbit.org/ [2] http://www.popehat.com/2013/12/06/nock-hoon-etc-for-non-vulc... [3] http://moronlab.blogspot.fr/2010/01/urbit-functional-program...

Trying to understand what it is about.

kencausey on Nov 7, 2014 | | [–]

https://github.com/cgyarvin/

_h8ft on Nov 7, 2014 | [–]

Probably both.

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