port Whitewater Actor to Squeak ?
Lynn McGuire
winsim at winsim.com
Thu May 2 17:24:52 UTC 2002
Hi,
I have a commerical application that is partly coded in the old
Whitewater Actor language. I am looking for a Win32 place to
port the Actor code to. The Actor programming environment is
a Win16 application and is a pure OOP, typeless, GC'd language
that is a descendent of Smalltalk and Pascal (and maybe a few
others) with a Smalltalk like class library. Whitewater sold
Actor to Symantec in 1992 and Actor was allowed to die on
the vine. There are still quite a few users of Actor since it was
such a good environment.
Questions:
1. Can Squeak be used to produce a commercial product ?
2. Would anyone know if porting Actor on top of Squeak
might be feasible ? How to start such an effort ? I do have
the complete source code for Actor including the Win16
assembly for the forth kernel.
Thanks,
Lynn McGuire
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