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		Raphael_Amiard on Oct 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine Being good at two things is more impressive than being good at one thing. Making a full featured VM is something that even lot of professionnal programmers can't do. The implication that you are "stamped" something at your birth was totally absent of GP's post.

makomk on Oct 16, 2012 [–]

Yeah. Also, I reckon there are some actual production VMs less well designed than this one (for instance, the one Second Life uses for scripting).

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