Good Old Smalltalks [was: Re: Progrmaming in Bytecode?]

Alain Fischer alain.fischer at bluewin.ch
Sat Aug 3 11:38:56 UTC 2002


Hi Dan,

I am interested in all you have about ST-76. Perhaps I can help ?

I have tried to implement ST-76 based on your paper:
- For the interpreter, I used the code of your paper.
- For the bootstrap and the kernel I was inspired by the ObjVlisp model.
- The primitive are based on the blue book implementation.
- For the compiler, I am trying to follow the way of "Monadic Parser 
Combinators".

I am only working a few hour a week on this, and I still need some month 
to have
a minimal workable prototype.

Have a nice day.
Alain



> About ST-76, the entire paper is available on line at
>
> 	http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/St76/
> 		Smalltalk76ProgrammingSystem.html
>
> (sorry, you'll have to glue those two lines together), thanks to a lot 
> of careful work by Dwight Hughes.
>
> And Speaking of ST-76, Helge Horch and I have been playing off and on 
> with a Squeak reconstruction of that system (I have the bootstrap for 
> it, too).  Maybe now is the time to get it actually running.  There are 
> a number of approaches which I can go into if there's more interest.




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