Language implementation in Squeak (was Re: Python for Squeak)

Bijan Parsia bparsia at email.unc.edu
Wed Nov 17 04:13:04 UTC 1999


At 10:05 PM -0500 11/16/99, Dwight Hughes wrote:

>You might both find the work at
>ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Smalltalk/MANCHESTER/manchester/4.1/lisp/ to be
>of interest. It contains implementations of a couple of versions of
>Scheme and a subset of CL in Smalltalk. Included is the paper
>"Metalinguistic Abstraction in Smalltalk-80 (or: Making Smalltalk with a
>Lisp)", all done by none other than Ian Piumarta - back when he was just
>a baby. :-b

Yep, it is interesting. Read it way back when. A little over my head, IIRC
:) I should revisit it.

Ian, can you give be a quick sense of how tricky it would be to get that
stuff up in Squeak?

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.





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