Resilient (was: The Weekly Juan #4: "Smalltalk, Direct Manipulation and End User Programming")

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Thu Nov 16 11:11:52 UTC 2006


Jecel Assumpcao Jr <jecel at merlintec.com> writes:
> Someone mentioned that the language had been changed from Smalltalk, but
> it is impossible to tell from the information on the company site
> (though you can register to download it and see for yourself). A good
> starting point for information about this system is:
> 
> http://www.smalltalk.org/versions/OOVM.html


More info here:

  http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/Resilient/Issues

This claims, and I had heard, that its blocks cannot be returned or
stored in the heap.  IMHO that is such a major limitation that it is
hardly Smalltalk any longer.


-Lex




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