On 30/10/12 15:39, dimitris chloupis wrote:
Hey Torsten and thanks for the reply.
I am not here to recommend pharo to move to JVM. Rtalk author also
mention this, moving a language to another platform like JVM is quite
easy ,
I've spent quite some time playing with Java and JVM. I don't think in
case of Smalltalk language it would be exactly 'quite easy' to move
to JVM.
There are certain constructs, prevalent in Smalltalk codebase, that
would be tricky to implement *efficiently* on JVM. Non-local returns,
proceedable exceptions, class extensions, snapshotting to name some.
Best, Jan
at least for people who are much better coders than me, moving
all the libraries which happen to depend a lot on C is not.
