On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:
On Sunday 31 March 2002 23:40, Bijan Parsia wrote:
But we really have to just disagree, or launch the experiement. I will point to the fact that Smalltalk has been used for *very* large systems (easily the size you describe), including every Smalltalk system. Self's dynamic profiler/optimizer was written in Self.
Actually, the whole Self virtual machine including the two compilers is written in C++ (the sources are available to anyone who isn't scare of 80kloc in that ugly language ;-).
D'oh! I grovel. I think I confused the Smalltalk in Self with Self itself.
This was a mistake,
Heh. Indeed.
which Squeak fixed with the Slang thing. But full Smalltalk (or Self) is a much better choice for writing compilers.
I still, personally, wouldn't want to port GCC to Smalltalk, but that's *just* me. I wouldn't want to port it to Java, either. Hell, I don't even want to *run* it, or even have it on my hard disk, or GOD JUST KNOWING ABOUT IT IS CAUSING MY EYEBALLS TO EXPLODE!!!!
Ahem.
I trust the spectacle I just made of myself has distracted everyone from the fact that I was in grotesque error.
Cheers, Bijan Parsia.