On Feb 6, 2015, at 1:52 AM, Guillermo Polito <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, but imagine how complex that bootstrap becomes when you want to add to > your classes: > > - traits > - layouts > - slots > ... > > And expressing all that in C also :) Surely the bootstrap doesn't have to be expressed in C?!?! It can be expressed in Smalltalk and still be a bootstrap right? > > El Fri Feb 06 2015 at 10:47:19 AM, Markus Fritsche <[email protected]> > escribió: >> >> On 06.02.2015 09:33, stepharo wrote: >>> In the coming months we will work on putting in place our bootstrapping >>> kernel. >>> There are no Smalltalk able to do that right now. >> >> GNU Smalltalk does just that, if it doesn't find an image, it will be >> bootstrapped by using the shipped .st fileouts. >> >> A bit of cheating is involved, a compiler & initialization is implemented on >> the VM side. >> >> So I would say "there are no Smalltalk that are able to do that right now >> the way we want to do it" :-P >> >> (Pissing at the door contest, to refer to another unquoted metaphor :-D)
