On Sunday 25 May 2003 18:18, David Harris wrote:
> I ran your page through Bablefish and it was a little more
> comprehensible.  (http://babelfish.altavista.com/)

It is very, very strange. But an interesting experience - some of the 
things the translation had trouble with turned out to be typos or badly 
phrased in the original language. This gives me hope that a 
multi-lingual Squeak with semi-automatic translation might work 
reasonably well.

I should have mentioned that the $30 general purpose computer I was 
talking about earlier is for small quantities. One of my projects is to 
actually have a $5 Smalltalk machine. That wouldn't have a keyboard or 
display, but would live inside of a light pen that would connect to a 
TV set. Think of it as a "tablet PC for the poor" :-)

A little more on topic, after I finish my current machine I want to 
implement the Squeak VM in Verilog on the Xess development board. I 
wonder if I should do it 100% by hand or if the Slang translator could 
be perverted to do part of the job. This is just a learning experience 
and not a commercial project. I want to see how fast things can go with 
no fancy tricks.

-- Jecel