Oh, nice! Mapping Lisp jokes over Smalltalk is so much fun! I do this all the time. 

On Apr 8, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Tony Garnock-Jones <tonyg at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> Frank Shearar wrote:
>> * Gilad's vision's great and all, but it's not what we have today. We have a world where Smalltalk's been touting images for 30 years... and noone else uses them.
> 
> Just a nitpick: *everybody* else uses them. "debootstrap" is the SystemTracer of the Linux world. But of course, you're right in that nobody is *aware* they're using an "ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of" Smalltalk's image facility :-)
> 
> Regards,
>  Tony
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