[squeak-dev] A Bootstrap Compiler

Michael Haupt mhaupt at gmail.com
Tue Dec 28 14:54:47 UTC 2010


Hi Igor,

On 28 December 2010 15:19, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
> can anyone tell me, when last time he had to deal with hardware, which
> having no preinstalled operating system/BIOS up and running,
> or there only C compiler and no any other languages which can run on it?

we had that with NXTalk ... but we admittedly cheated a bit by using
an available open-source minimal OS whose interface our C code
addressed.

> P.S. i think i know the answer to question why "computer revolution
> didn't happened yet",
> because every time people inventing something new, they implementing it in C.

:-)

On the other hand, stacking ever more abstractions on top of each
other eventually costs an amount of performance that will be noticed.

Best,

Michael



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