On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Colin Putney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:colin@wiresong.com">colin@wiresong.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Nikolay Suslov <<a href="mailto:nsuslovi@gmail.com">nsuslovi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Thinking, that nobody here will argue about image-side compiler and it's<br>
> capabilities.. etc.<br>
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> But, Yoshiki is talking about, that you could "generate a growable image<br>
> file from all<br>
> text files, or make deep changes to the system without shooting yourself".<br>
> And this is really awesome and so long waited step!<br>
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</div>Well, you do need a C compiler, presumably in the form of an<br>
executable binary. </blockquote><div><br>Yes, of course, and C compiler is available anywhere!.. then for bootstrapping the image you will just need sources in a text form..<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
And if you're going to grant special dispensation<br>
to an "external tool" implemented in C, why not to an external tool<br>
implemented in Smalltalk?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>sure, may be eventually this "external tool" could be bootstrapped by Ian's COLA... also just from "all text files", needing in a C compiler on the first stages only.<br>
<br><br>Best regards,<br>Nikolay<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
That said, bravo, Yoshiki! This is a great project.<br>
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Colin<br>
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