> Your joke remind me a funny event occurring one year ago. I was chatting with
> an old friend working in the bank sector in Geneva. He asked me what's up
> today, I told him my interest in Smalltalk, he joked I was interested in
> computer archeology. It looked funny to me as well.
>
> Your friend is right: we still use IT of the 70s...
> But maybe he's still using those of the late 60s himself (you know,{}, no
> boolean, source files, include files, preprocessor directives, compiler
> flags,...)
> That's something I usually answer.
>
> Nicolas
:)
Even if it would be good to invent the next generation
- secure
- extremely modular/malleable (bootstrap and coevolution of the vm
would be really cool)
- high optimized (I would be curious to know if we could "seal" some
packages and in this case use a lot of inlining
- customizable memory management
- better mop
Stef
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