[squeak-dev] Re: External language support

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Sun Dec 7 21:21:45 UTC 2008


Stephan Eggermont wrote:
> What about the work done with Panda3D at Disney?

Panda3D had a highly reflective layer on top of the C++ stuff which 
allowed them to inspect and construct the proper interfaces at runtime. 
John Sarkela  did this based on top of the FFI (this project was the 
driving force for the FFI).

I don't recall the specifics but I think Panda exported all its stuff 
using C bindings and hooked this together via the FFI. You should ask 
John for the details.

Cheers,
    - Andreas

> Cary Sandvig and Jesse Schell wrote a paper on what they did in 2000:
> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall02/cs526/papers/panda.pdf
> Current versions no longer support Smalltalk.
> 
> Did they just use a c++ subset?
> 
> 
> Stephan
> 
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