Thanks mariano. It was cool and I like the hands-on because we are not just taught but we participate and learn.
On Mar 11, 2011, at 10:44 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: > Hi all. I am doing quite an effort to have the laptop opened and type some > words....heehhehe after a whole vm hacking week I promise I cannot do more.. > > I wanted to thanks everybody for the unbelievable Deep Smalltalk School that > we had. I really thanks everybody involved: organizers, INRIA, ESUG, EDM and > other sponsors, you, etc. Even if some people don't notice, I know that some > of you spend a lot of time and energy (instead of using such yout time for > something else). I promise it was more than worth it. > > The school was a success. People come over the world: Canada, USA, Argentina, > Norway, Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, etc. We were around 45 persons. Even > if I am a VM newbie, I like low level stuff. Sometimes when you go to ESUG, > Smalltalks or any other conference, you can see one or two 30-minutes-talks > about VM, compilers, etc. But do you image what is a whole week from 9:00 to > 18:00 talking about VM, Compiler, Parser, Networking, optimizations, etc ??? > It is really cool!!! > > If there is something like this again in the future, please, consider coming, > you won't regret. The best thing is that since we have a lot of hours, we can > have not only the theoretical lessons, but also the hands on. So, we were > able to: compile CogVM from scratch, implement a Twitter like app, create > some petit parsers, optimize some real code, create a minimal Hazelnut image, > create a VM plugin, etc.... > > So, once again, thanks a lot to everybody involved. > > Cheers > > Mariano
