[self-interest] Re: Self on Linux

[Jecel Assumpcao Jr]

Gordon Cichon wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> David Ungar's Mac port of Self is very good. He showed it
> to me when I visited the bay area two weeks ago.
> 
> He already reimplemented the stack frame format for
> running it on the PPC. With his work, it seems feasable to get
> finally Self running on Linux with a reasonable amount of work.
> 
> Let's encourage David Ungar to release his work asap. It is a
> great step forward.

Maybe if more than 5 people would vote for the Mac in your
poll, then he would feel more encouraged :-) Of course, with
cute iBooks and new G4 machines coming out, Macs might be more
popular in the near future.

> Please, David, release it soon!

Amen! Specially if this port would help others, like Gordon
indicated above. OOPSLA'99 will be here soon, and being able
to give people a version of Self they could actually try
could have a huge impact on the language's future.

-- Jecel