Complexity and starting over on the JVM (was Re: Traits or not...)

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 04:45:48 UTC 2008


On 05/02/2008, Bergel, Alexandre <bergel at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> > As impressive as it was for Dan Ingalls to make that version of
> > Squeak, and
> > then Pavel to decompile the result into source, so what? What is
> > the license
> > of it all (either origins or decompiled version)? How well factored
> > is it?
>
> This is not clear, you're right.
>
> > Does it have nay hope to be supported by a community? Does it take
> > advantage
> > of the Java/JVM platform, including threading and multi-processor
> > support?
> > Or interoperate easily back and forth with Java libraries like
> > Jython can?
>
> I haven't looked at deeply, but I strongly suspect that no
> interaction is actually possible with Java.
>
Interesting, this subject showing up couple times before my eyes recently.
What is so precious in being able to interact with java?
Needless to say, that with decent efforts, everything is possible :)

> I am currently working on this.
> http://bergel.eu/athena for more info
>
> Cheers,
> Alexandre
>
> --


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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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