[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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