Killer Squeak App?

Stephen Pair spair at advantive.com
Mon Aug 20 18:00:17 UTC 2001


> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Stefan Matthias Aust
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 1:06 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: RE: Killer Squeak App?
> 
> 
> At 10:18 20.08.2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >Stefan, did you see my post about http://spair.swiki.net/21 ?
> 
> No, not yet.  I just came back to the Squeak list last weekend.
> 
> However, did you see my effort, porting the original SELF system to 
> VisualWorks?
>   --> http://www.3plus4.de/self/

No, that's the first I've seen of it.  It's interesting that you took
the approach of trying to load the Self snapshot file.  I hadn't thought
of that.  I think the first step would be to get a Self compiler working
in Squeak.  Also, how do you like the Self syntax overall?  I haven't
used Self that much...there are a few things that I'm not so sure I
like, but I'll reserve any comment until I've had more experience with
it.

Another thing that I thought would be interesting is running Python in
Squeak (interesting to see how well it could perform that is).
Prototype objects might be a convenient place to start a Python
implementation since they allow for the dynamic addition of instance
variables (like Python).  I don't think you'd need the delegation
capability for Python though.

- Stephen





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