[Webteam] Squeak History

Alan Kay alan.kay at squeakland.org
Sat May 19 17:36:02 UTC 2007


Dan and I have joked that there is probably at least one line of code 
I wrote for class Paragraph still there. (I did the original version 
in ST-72 -- a one -pager -- but it has been added to and etc., many 
times since by others.)

However, there is quite a bit of code still in Squeak from the 
Smalltalk-80 release version that went to various companies, 
including Apple before the Blue Book was written. And at least some 
of that was in ST-76, the original version of which was pretty much 
designed and written by Dan (the other three contributors for that 
implementation were Ted Kaehler, Diana Merry, and Dave Robson). Larry 
Tesler soon afterwards added the first of the code browsers, etc.

Cheers,

Alan

At 10:09 AM 5/19/2007, Brad Fuller wrote:
>subbukk wrote:
>>
>>On Friday 18 May 2007 11:02 pm, Craig Latta wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>>not forgetting of course that Squeak was announced in september(?) 96
>>>>
>>>
>>>      midnight pacific time, 1 October 1996.
>>>
>>
>>Is the birth date of Squeak Virtual machine or the Squeak Image? 
>>Though Squeak
>>was released in '96, some of the objects in its image must have been created
>>long before that. Is there a way to find out the oldest extant object in an
>>image?
>>
>According to Dan's "Back to the Future"  article, the team started 
>with an Apple Smalltalk-80 implementation which contained the image 
>and VM. Maybe there is still some code from ST-80.
>
>brad
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