Hello,
I noticed that this one only got a one-liner from Ron, but I felt to explain it a bit more.
First, the better paper to refer to is:
http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/squeak/oopsla_squeak.html
In Squeak, what was first: VM or image?
If we are specifically talking about Squeak, I'd say the image was the first, but could have been in the other way. The image was created from the Apple Smalltalk image, and the part of the Squeak VM was also written in the same Apple Smalltalk.
It is said the Squeak VM is created by itself, but how to run the first image file? And how to creat the first image file?
It was actually hosted in an existing (another) Smalltalk environment.
I wondered whether the VM C source code should be first created?
The first VM didn't depend on any C code, but other Smalltalk.
And, I think a philosopher recently declared that the egg was first before chicken. Following his theory, a non-chicken creature bore an egg, but it was a chicken-kind egg.
-- Yoshiki