Squeak and Self

shaping at bigfoot.com shaping at bigfoot.com
Thu Apr 15 14:21:07 UTC 1999


----- Original Message -----
From: Peter William Lount <peter at smalltalk.org>
To: <squeak at cs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: Squeak and Self


> Hi,
>
> There is a Smalltalk being simulated in Self all ready! At one point it
was
> reportedly the fastest Smalltalk due to the incredible Self compiler!
>
> You could probably just file in 95% of the Squeak code without any
changes.
> The last bit to make it work might take a bit of effort....
>
> But Why?
>
> Currently Self - on the SPARC - is a dead technology. Self would scream on
> the IA64 or Alpha though!!!!!

A clean Self implementation on Alpha or Intel hardware is what I had in
mind.
Self is not dead:  http://www.egroups.com/list/self-interest/?refstop=1

Regards.



>
> All the best,
>
> Peter
>
> ----------
> From: Russ Van Rooy <russvr at blarg.net>
> To: shaping at bigfoot.com; squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: Squeak and Self
> Date: April 14, 1999 10:43 PM
>
> > simulate Self  on Squeak
> Isn't that what Morphic in squeak is [all ]about ?
> -Russ
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <shaping at bigfoot.com>
> To: <squeak at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 7:16 PM
> Subject: Squeak and Self
>
>
> > Does anyone want to convert Squeak into Self, or at least simulate Self
> on
> > Squeak?
> >
>
>
>





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