On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Craig Latta <craig at netjam.org> wrote:

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> Hi Eliot--
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> > > How did [John Maloney] know which classes were necessary for [a] new
> > > [MicroSqueak] image?
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> > There is a hierarchy rooted at MObject, all of which becomes the new
> > classes in the new image.  The generator renames the classes so that
> > in the generated image MObject is called Object and so on for all
> > subclasses.
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>     Right, but how did he know which classes should be in that hierarchy?
> I.e., how did he decide what was essential and what wasn't?


You should ask John, but the aim was to get a minimal Hello World so there
isn't a compiler for example.  But surely the answer is "whatever you need
to get what you want done", right?  So if the goal is a microkernel from
which one can bootstrap an image one needs a compiler, a file system
interface, and for sanity a minimal error-reporting framework right?

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