I am interested in VMs, so why do I need to care about the language on top?
Actually, I do research in how to support all kind of different languages on
top of the same VM, because there is not a single language that is the ultimate
answer to all problems. That is why I do not care about any particular language.
Just look at the JVM. How much of its technology was developed in the pure Java
context? Not a lot. Most was actually conceived for Smalltalk.
As long as the languages have some commonalities and are not based on
graph-reduction like Haskell, then they usually don't require a completely new
designed VM, but a nice set of common abstractions. So why, as a researcher,
should I care about Smalltalk? Smalltalk is not the final answer, and will
never be. Neither is any other single language.
+1
Just answer the question! How often do your colleagues grab a book from the
shelf? How often a day, how often a week?
Some of my colleagues use books quite often. They like to put their
monitors on them. :)
Still, there is already a good thing coming out of the whole flame war. Laurent
took the time to look into how to make the books web-accessible. All it took
was a small nudge in the right direction.
Yay :)
Lets stop this thread in peace and have a nice weekend :) Goodbye and
thanks for all the fish!
