Were method cascades ever considered for C#?
Smalltalk supports a syntax feature called “message cascades”. Cascades are being adopted by the Dart Programming language.
Are there similarities between operating system kernels and programming language kernels?
I know very little about Smalltalk but I noticed that there’s a frequent mention of the “kernel”. Dan Ingalls prime maintainer of several implementations of Smalltalk also worked on a Javascript environment called “Lively Kernel” and in Peter Siebel’s book he kept mentionning the “kernel”.
What’s the relationship between meta-circular interpreters, virtual machines and increased performance?
I’ve read about meta-circular interpreters on the web (including SICP) and I’ve looked into the code of some implementations (such as PyPy and Narcissus).
What’s the relationship between meta-circular interpreters, virtual machines and increased performance?
I’ve read about meta-circular interpreters on the web (including SICP) and I’ve looked into the code of some implementations (such as PyPy and Narcissus).
In Squeak i want to send a message to an object being passed in as a parameter. It looks like I can’t do that. Is that correct?
I have a class in squeak that takes an object in the constructor. Since there are no types, the object could be of any type. I want to send that object a message that is defined by that object’s class. I think the architecture prevents me from doing that because I don’t know the type, so I don’t know the message selectors that are valid for that class.
What happened to VM based deployments?
Watched some MountainWest RubyConf 2014 talks and noticed an interesting theme. Many dynamic programming environments back in the old days used to be self-contained VM images, e.g. SmallTalk, GemStone/S.
How does whileTrue: works in Smalltalk?
I want to know how whileTrue: works. I searched the implementation that is in BlockClosure:
How would one allow a client to query a graph database in Smalltalk, without exposing all of Smalltalk? [closed]
Closed 9 years ago.
Objects in smalltalk and c++ [closed]
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Objects in smalltalk and c++ [closed]
Closed 9 years ago.