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> * I don't actually know if there are programming practices that center around managing moments in time. I can't even think how that would work, but I would be very interested to know if there are any :)

There was a live, 3D, peer-to-peer interactive environment back in the early 2000s called Croquet that made use of the concept of "pseudo-time." It was built on top of Squeak Smalltalk (there are some decendants today, including croquet.io). The part that handled the time management in a way you might find interesting was called TeaTime [1], and built on the ideas of David Reed thesis about pseudo-time [2]. If you are not familiar with these you might want to check them out!

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1094855.1094861

[2] http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-20...



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