Phil Windley

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I write primarily about digital identity, specifically self-sovereign identity and authorization.

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Worlds: Tabs for Programming by Alan Kay

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Via Lambda the Ultimate a pointer to a paper by Alessandro Warth and Alan Kay (PDF) called "Worlds: Controlling the Scope of Side Effects". I didn't get as much out of reading the abstract as I did from the opening paragraphs of the intro: Suppose that, while browsing the...