On Dec 1, 2012, at 8:36 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
On 30 Nov 2012, at 23:33, Sebastian Nozzi <sebnozzi@gmail.com> wrote:
I think Redline is not trying to be a full-fledged Smalltalk (not like the Squeak port to the JVM). It is more in the spirit of Amber. A Smalltalk-to-Java compiler, with some underlying runtime support. It does not aim at supporting the full enchilada :-)
IMO, the secret of Smalltalk is a delicate combination of elements, take some out and the magic is gone.
Another aspect is that what got me hooked to Squeak back than was the idea to go further than Smalltalk. To take what humanity learned since 1978, to take the hardware advances, and to build a system that is Smalltalk by *Spirit*, yet just *much* *much* more so. How can you do that if your main concern is "how do I get it to run on the JVM?". And why does it matter? In 2000, Java was hype. Now Java is the new Cobol. Do I want to spend the rest of my live to get a dead language to run on a boring platform? I, personally, decided that there are more interesting things to do. Just imagine what you could build instead! Marcus