A Beginner Does Some Morphic Stuff

Stephen Pair spair at advantive.com
Tue Nov 6 23:07:03 UTC 2001


I guess I should plug "delegation for squeak" again...download it at:
http://spair.swiki.net/delegation

With this modified VM, you can re-create all of the Self experiments
right in Squeak.

- Stephen

> Nahuel Greco wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 10:42:26 -0600
> > Ed Heil <uncorrected at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Yep.  I do *like* the idea of instance programming -- or more 
> > > specifically of prototype-based programming.  I've read 
> about Self 
> > > and it seems really great (that is, it fits in well with 
> my personal 
> > > prejudices about apt ways to represent reality ;).  It's 
> a pity it's 
> > > not really being developed anymore and there are no working 
> > > free-software implementations...
> > >
> > 
> > There is a free implementation for the Java VM called JSelf:
> > 
> >         http://www.consultar.com/JSelf/
> > 
> > And there was another project called Openself, but i dont have the 
> > URL.
> 
> There are versions of Self which will run on Sparc and Power 
> Mac boxes (the only real problem with getting it to run on 
> Intel is that no one has the time/energy/is masochistic 
> enough to re-write it in Intel Assembler). As I understand 
> it, Sun open sourced the code.
> 
> A Google for Self should throw up all the relevant links.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> John
> 
> -- 
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> automagically destroy themselves and have money to burn on 
> 3rd party tools to keep your system staggering on, Microsoft 
> (tm) have the Operating System for you.
 





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