About reflection and it engineering

ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Mon Nov 3 20:50:56 UTC 2003


On Lundi, nov 3, 2003, at 15:04 Europe/Zurich, Serge Stinckwich wrote:

> ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> writes:
>
>> Worth to read:
>> 	http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lorenz/papers/icse03/
>>
>
> Thanks Stef for the reference.
>
> Do you know why the authors call Squeak a 5-metalevel system and
> Little-Smalltalk a 3-metalevel system ?

No I read that too.
I like the idea behind the paper engineering the meta-level but I do 
not like
their approach, because this is too interpreter oriented.

This is also fun to see that they got a lot of feedback from gilad ;)

Stef

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