[Vm-dev] [Pharo-dev] Random corrupted data when copying from very large byte array

[Stuart Cassoff]

Thanks!
I've watched all those,
plus all 140 of these https://www.youtube.com/user/gandysmedicineshow
plus all of these (which are way better Lawson's) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9fxnlyTJbh-li3QlVytbvGXHOw1SaXv3
plus another handful of Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls vids, plus talks on a range of Smalltalk topics, plus...
Many I've watched more than once, even.
I've also read articles, blogs, papers, etc.
I've got a pretty good grasp of the language and basic tools usage.
I'm now moving from the theory to the practice phase.
I've still got to figure out a few more things but now that's mostly Monticello-ish-y stuff.

fyi, I program mainly in C and Tcl, and I do some porting so I'm somewhat handy with autoconf et al.

Right now Pharo sez my vm is too old but it turns out that's because I'm getting a 'subscript out of bounds' when I do a 'Smalltalk vm interpreterSourceDate'. *shrug*

I'll have some test results shortly.


Stu


> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>
> Date: January 24, 2018 at 1:37 PM
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> > On 23 January 2018 at 21:33, Stuart Cassoff <aa72 at bell.net> wrote:
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> >> Thanks! Yeah, sorry, I couldn't find the original thread.
> >> Anyway I don't really know what to do with this so I pasted into a workspace and hit alt-p.
> >> After a while I get a debug popup telling me about something not understanding 'halt'.
> >> fyi I've not yet written a line of Smalltalk code in my life so maybe I'm biting off more than I can chew.
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> OK Stuart, pop over to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es7RyllOS-M&list=PL6601A198DF14788D and watch your way through Lawson’s nice playlist of introduction to smalltalk videos. They’re a little out of date in some UI details (being based on the 4.x era of Squeak) but I don’t think anything has changed that would cause serious mental distress.
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> tim
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