@cwebber @Gargron @cj yes I am actually pretty familiar with Habitat and Chip and Randy's work, as a former professional MMOG developer myself. I can see from the papers you link that OCAPs are decades old, my head was just spinning at the idea of a portable, language-independent programming environment. When I think of programming environments I imagine like, Smalltalk.
@darius @gargron @cj Oh cool, thrilled that you already know Chip and Randy. Great folks.
I've only come to know them more recently; Mark Miller was the person who has helped most introduce me to this world of ideas. I owe him an incredible debt.