Hi,

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:43 AM, askoh <askoh at askoh.com> wrote:
> Learning from Squeak's mistake,

what do you mean?

> I am eager to know if Newspeak programs can
> be called by external programs. ...

I don't quite know if I understand you correctly, but there is a
sophisticated FFI implementation (called "Alien FFI") that comes with
a robust callback mechanism. So, yes, it is possible to make calls
into the image from, e.g., C code. Does that answer your question?

> Is there any estimate of a release date?

I'm not the one to give a definitive answer here, but Gilad Bracha
wrote it would be "Real Soon Now :-)" (capitalised and smileyed as
quoted) on January 13th. See
http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2009/01/apologia.html

Best,

Michael