Hallelujah!

From: Max Eskin <max82_at_surfree.com>
Date: Sat Apr 3 22:27:08 1999

On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Derek Peschel wrote:
>I hope you'll try Squeak again, though. Are you using UNIX? You may find
>the MS-Windows and Mac versions more stable. Smalltalk's mechanism of
>message passing and the "everything is an object" philosophy give it a
>unique power.

I was using the Windows 95 version, and it was constantly swapping. I have
16 megs RAM, but I hardly think it should take that much. Is there a GNU
smalltalk? Is it possible to get a PC-comptaible version of the type of
Smalltalk used for the Alto?

It seems that in LISP, everything is an object too, BTW. What I found
really amazing is that a name can have a function, a list, and a list of
properties associated with it. And, of course, how simple it is from a
low-level point of view.

 --Max Eskin (max82_at_surfree.com)
Received on Sat Apr 03 1999 - 22:27:08 BST