[squeak-dev] Did we really nailed files?
Casey Ransberger
casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
Fri Apr 8 20:14:04 UTC 2011
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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