oldest bits in Squeak?

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Wed Feb 18 01:19:46 UTC 2004


Almost certainly from late 70s ...

Cheers,

Alan

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At 5:13 PM -0400 2/17/04, Lex Spoon wrote:
>How old are the oldest bits in Squeak?  When was the last time an image
>was created from scratch, as opposed to being modified from a previous
>version?  I know this idea has gone around before, but I want to double
>check.
>
>I would like to claim that every Squeak image is a suspended program
>that has been running since 19__, which is a pretty good record of
>software reuse!  It also can make curly-brace people rethink the idea of
>restarting their program from scratch whenever they make a tiny change.
>
>
>-Lex


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