[Vm-dev] TZAG everyone! I'm a Coyo, and I'm interested in SqueaksVM development. Hope you dont mind if i poke in here :3

Alex Maurin coyo at parlementum.net
Mon Feb 13 00:13:16 UTC 2012


On Sun, February 12, 2012 7:02 am, David T. Lewis wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 02:32:33AM -0600, Alex Maurin wrote:
>>
>> Hey all, my name is Coyo / Alex, either one is fine.
>>
>> I recently discovered OpenCobalt, and one of the developers there
>> pointed
>> me at Squeak. it seems an interesting language.
>>
>> The developer in question has a youtube tutorial series, and since i
>> already have virtualbox installed, i looked at the download options, and
>> supposed that a vm option would be fascinating.
>>
>> I dont know why a language would need its own virtual machine or
>> operating
>> system, but i guess i'm about to find out! :D
>>
>> This should be fun.
>
> Hello Coyo,
>
> Here is the classic "Back to the Future" paper that will help you
> understand
> where Squeak (and later OpenCobalt) comes from, and how it implements its
> own virtual machine to host a live object environment:
>
>   http://ftp.squeak.org/docs/OOPSLA.Squeak.html
>

*opens in another tab*

> As you can tell from looking OpenCobalt, a great deal of development and
> change has taken place since that paper was written.
>
> Other mailing lists of interest for Squeak are here:
>
>   http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/608
>
> The list for the related Pharo project is here:
>
>   http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
>

*has heard of pharo, and opens this in another tab as well*

> If you are looking at OpenCobalt, you will probably find the squeak-dev
> list to be a good place to ask general questions.
>
>   http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/squeak-dev
>
> Dave
>
>

Yes, sir. I'll be sure to subscribe to that, Dave.

Alex




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