On Thursday 29 March 2001 18:42, Stephen Pair wrote:
�Are there any papers (or code) for Smalltalk-76 on the web? �I'm sure �they've been announced before (and wasn't there an implementation of �it for Squeak?), but I've forgotten.
This one is great:
http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/St76/Smalltalk76ProgrammingSystem.ht...
but doesn't mention meta-classes. On page 34 of Alan Kay's "The Early History of Smalltalk" paper there is a drawing labeled "Smalltalk-76 Metaphysics". All classes were instances of the class Class object, which was a subclass of the class Object. Little Smalltalk initially had the same design (which makes all classes have the exact same set of class methods) but has moved to a more Smalltalk-80-like system in version 4.
There is a simulation in Squeak of Smalltalk-72, not 76.
-- Jecel