[self-interest] Self as a Smalltalk (was: Uses of self)

[Stephen De Gabrielle]

Thank you.
>Perhaps your experience with Lisps it too narrow?
I think you are right! I think my experience of smalltalks is also too
narrow.

Thank you especially for referring me to Mario Wolczko's paper.

Kind regards,
Stephen



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On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. <jecel at merlintec.com>wrote:

>
>
> Stephen,
>
> > I was surprised when you described Self as a smalltalk.
>
> People have very different and strong opinions about this. There was a
> recent discussion where this mattered because of what the European
> *Smalltalk* User's Group should support or not for the Google Summer of
> Code project. Their name implied they should limit themselves to
> Smalltalk, but does that include Self? Slate? Newspeak?
>
> I made my position clear when I changed the name of my project from
> Self/R to NeoSmalltalk without making a single technical change.
>
> > The differences seem too great to me, unlike the differences between
> > Lisps. (CL,Racket,Scheme)
>
> Perhaps your experience with Lisps it too narrow? Before Common Lisp
> there was a lot of diversity like you see in Forth. I used XLisp and
> Portable Standard Lisp (REDUCE), for example. But it might be a cultural
> thing - these days people use names like Arc or Clojure for what would
> be SomethingLisp back then.
>
> Note that I consider "Smalltalk-80" to be just one example of
> "Smalltalk", though an extremely important one. The original name for
> the Self project at Xerox Parc was "Smalltalk-86", and it was not much
> more different from Smalltalk-80 than Smalltalk-76 was. I won't even go
> into Smalltalk-72 and -74 since there are plenty of people who would
> deny they should be considered Smalltalks.
>
> It is possible to have a very good notion of how different Self and
> Smalltalk-80 are from Mario Wolczko's paper:
>
> http://www.merlintec.com/download/mario.pdf
>
> By creating an alternative parser, a few helper objects and some
> graphical tools he was able to load unmodified GNU Smalltalk libraries
> and have the fastest Smalltalk in the world. This was showin in the Self
> movie, but very few people understand what it implies (they think it
> would be like showing a Prolog interpreter running in Smalltalk, for
> example).
>
> -- Jecel
>
>  
>
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