StarSqueak (was: Bongo a Java for kids)
Richard A. O'Keefe
ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz
Tue Jul 31 00:56:12 UTC 2001
John.Maloney at disney.com wrote:
Anyone who's interested in simulations, especially simulations of
biological systems, will find Mitchel's book:
Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams:
Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds
(MIT Press, 1994)
fascinating reading. After reading it, I just couldn't keep myself
from implementing the core ideas in Squeak. I'd say the performance
of the Java version says a lot about what's wrong with Java. The Mac
version of StarLogo was written in Lisp, I believe, and it's quite fast.
Let me second that. StarLogo is fun, and it's plenty fast enough, but
the ideas in the book are even better.
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