On 12/30/10, Göran Krampe <goran at krampe.se> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> On 12/28/2010 07:22 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>> I simply don't see the benefit of putting energy into other languages.
>>   I see the benefit of a textual bootstrap.  But why is it worth-while
>> implementing that in C instead of Smalltalk?
>
> Well, one benefit would be to fit more easily into the ecosystems of
> Linux distros etc where they generally get nervous from having to start
> from an "unknown" binary.
>
> In other words - if a system can be built solely from text files using
> "stock" tools like a C compiler (or any tool typically available in
> these ecosystems) then the acceptance is much higher.

+1
C may be considered as a kind of general assembly language available
on most platforms.

However the C program might be generated from a Smalltalk
implementation. Thus both points of view may be served.

--Hannes