Hi Dan,
I am interested in all you have about ST-76. Perhaps I can help ?
I have tried to implement ST-76 based on your paper: - For the interpreter, I used the code of your paper. - For the bootstrap and the kernel I was inspired by the ObjVlisp model. - The primitive are based on the blue book implementation. - For the compiler, I am trying to follow the way of "Monadic Parser Combinators".
I am only working a few hour a week on this, and I still need some month to have a minimal workable prototype.
Have a nice day. Alain
About ST-76, the entire paper is available on line at
http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/St76/ Smalltalk76ProgrammingSystem.html
(sorry, you'll have to glue those two lines together), thanks to a lot of careful work by Dwight Hughes.
And Speaking of ST-76, Helge Horch and I have been playing off and on with a Squeak reconstruction of that system (I have the bootstrap for it, too). Maybe now is the time to get it actually running. There are a number of approaches which I can go into if there's more interest.