At Wednesday, 31 July 2002, you wrote:
I know this may sound sadistic, but how could I go about programming in Smalltalk bytecode, directly? I've seen assemblers for Java, that
do the
same job as assemblers for native CPUs. I imagine such a tool doesn't exist for SMalltalk at this time, but perhaps it wouldn't be hard
to put
one together in my quest to play with bytecode.
One of the projects I did a while ago was writing PIC/Smalltalk, which basically is a Slang-style translater that translates Smalltalk source code into PIC assembler. PIC chips are tiny 8-bit RISC embedded micro-controllers (www.microchip.com), with miniscule amounts of memory (program memory measured in single-digit kilobytes and RAM between 50 and 500 bytes).
If you want to work at a low level with Smalltalk, doing stuff like that is fun and useful as well. And of course it works in Squeak, although its been a while since I did anything with it.
http://www.huv.com/smalltalk for more details...
Later, Jon
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