Nov. 10, 2017
4:56 p.m.
On 6 Nov 2017, at 21:00 , Andrew Glynn <aglynn42@gmail.com> wrote:
Btw, did Self ever work? At all? The last I remember it was in a similar state to Electron without the M$ adds in Visual Studio, i.e. the samples from the site donât build.
Self worked fine. It was a bit memory-hungry on the machines of the early 1990s, but I taught a class on OOP using it in about 1996 or 1997. The NewtonScript language for the ill-fated Newton tablet was essentially Self. A bit ahead of its time â it would run fine in todayâs mobile phones. Andrew Black