Simultor frameworks for Squeak

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Tue Jul 17 16:47:12 UTC 2001


Thanks Mark --

That all looks very familiar (though distant ......).

Cheers,

Alan

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At 11:30 AM -0400 7/17/01, Mark Guzdial wrote:
>>    So this is very simple to do. The real work in making a discrete 
>>event simulation system has to do with making various statisical 
>>distributes, etc. I think most of those are in Smalltalk-80 and 
>>hence in Squeak. I also vaguely recall that there is some 
>>discussion about this in one of the colored books (I think maybe 
>>the Blue Book).
>
>We used to this framework when we taught VisualWorks.  When we moved 
>to Squeak, we ported it to Squeak.  I just tried it, and it seems to 
>mostly work in 3.1a (I tried "NothingAtAll aDoNothingDemo" and the 
>event trace got created, but it ended in an error about a file 
>already being closed).  All the distribution classes are there.
>
>The changeset is at http://guzdial.cc.gatech.edu/st/sims.cs
>
>Lecture notes on the Blue book simulations stuff (with explanations 
>and demos) are at:
>http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/cs2390_97_summer/lectures/introsims.html
>
>Mark
>
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