On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 09:17 -0400, Paul D. Fernhout wrote: > I've wandered around the idea of rolling my own Smalltalk on Java, > perhaps drawing from GST. But that was not straightforward because GST > has (forgive me) some excessive internal complexity in how it defines > itself which it was not easy to see how to map onto Java. I still think > it is a good idea to have a Smalltalk that runs well on Java though -- > ideally one that, like Python, runs on Java and runs on C.
Feel free to join us in #gnu-smalltalk on irc.freenode.net, where regular Sukoshi is looking into doing just this to support a commercial project, using Per Bothner's gnu.bytecode Java package to compile Smalltalk classes to Java classes that can work somehow with Java code. -- ;;; Stephen Compall ** http://scompall.nocandysw.com/blog ** "Peta" is Greek for fifth; a petabyte is 10 to the fifth power, as well as fifth in line after kilo, mega, giga, and tera. -- Lee Gomes, performing every Wednesday in his tech column "Portals" on page B1 of The Wall Street Journal
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