[squeak-dev] A Bootstrap Compiler

Nikolay Suslov nsuslovi at gmail.com
Tue Dec 28 12:23:08 UTC 2010


Hello,

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> What i like about image-side compiler that i can use the
> metaprogramming and late-binding capabilities
> in language for compiling the source.
> While C compiler having no such flexibility, and good to have when you
> plan to freeze things for ages.
>
>
>
Thinking, that nobody here will argue about image-side compiler and it's
capabilities.. etc.

But, Yoshiki is talking about, that you could "generate a growable *image
file from all
text files*, or make deep changes to the system without shooting yourself".
And this is really awesome and so long waited step!


Best regards,
Nikolay
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