On 12/30/10, Göran Krampe goran@krampe.se wrote:
Hi all!
On 12/28/2010 07:22 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
I simply don't see the benefit of putting energy into other languages. I see the benefit of a textual bootstrap. But why is it worth-while implementing that in C instead of Smalltalk?
Well, one benefit would be to fit more easily into the ecosystems of Linux distros etc where they generally get nervous from having to start from an "unknown" binary.
In other words - if a system can be built solely from text files using "stock" tools like a C compiler (or any tool typically available in these ecosystems) then the acceptance is much higher.
+1 C may be considered as a kind of general assembly language available on most platforms.
However the C program might be generated from a Smalltalk implementation. Thus both points of view may be served.
--Hannes