Sign for Animorphic Smalltalk release

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Fri Oct 5 13:32:27 UTC 2001


Hi all

I need you!!!! Long time ago in 1996, a group of excellent people built a
Smalltalk, called Animorphic Smalltalk that went (and goes still today) 3
times faster than our Smalltalks. (May be some gurus VM will run some
benchmark and we will know the truth). This Animorphic Smalltalk proposed
also a type system, glyph based interface, mixins and mirrors (a new way to
look at reflection which looks really interesting).

This group of people was bought by SUN. SUN has now agreed to let them
release an image of this Smalltalk and that we could look at it. But the
process is really slow. I would like to say to the authors of the Animorphic
Smalltalk that we the community is eager to look at their Smalltalk, that We
want to learn from them.

So I set up a wiki page http://scgwiki.iam.unibe.ch:8080/SmalltalkWiki/
where I started a petition to support them.

So please please sign to tell them that we are interested, even excited to
look at their Smalltalk

Stef

Please propagate this message.

-- 
Stephane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch) http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
 "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do
 different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
 might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes






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