[Webteam] Squeak History
Alan Kay
alan.kay at squeakland.org
Mon May 21 21:32:25 UTC 2007
If only they did dynamically bind ... far too many changes require a
reboot and this means that they are still using linking loaders to do
quite a bit of integration of changes ...
Cheers,
Alan
At 07:58 AM 5/21/2007, Alan Lovejoy wrote:
><Alan Kay>As Dan Ingalls used to say: "An operating system is just the stuff
>left out of the programming language -- if you don't leave it out, then you
>don't need the OS".</Alan Kay>
>
>And one of the most critical things left out of most programming languages
>is dynamic binding (and often even static linking,) which is why operating
>systems commonly provide both capabilities. In fact, the operating system
>is essentially that body of common, shared code that is dynamically
>bound/linked to application programs. Dynamically binding applications to
>that common code base is the primary purpose of the OS.
>
>--Alan
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