Comments on: Lively Kernel, a Self Supporting System on a Web Page http://news.squeak.org/2008/01/12/lively-kernel-a-self-supporting-system-on-a-web-page/ What's new in the world of Squeak Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:08:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ken Causey http://news.squeak.org/2008/01/12/lively-kernel-a-self-supporting-system-on-a-web-page/#comment-28343 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:38:44 +0000 http://news.squeak.org/2008/01/12/lively-kernel-a-self-supporting-system-on-a-web-page/#comment-28343 Just to pick a nit, and I feel entitled since I made the same mistake and had it pointed out to me: to call this “Squeak on steroids” is a mistake since there is in fact no Smalltalk here. It’s certainly a Morphic variant. But implemented in Javascript and you use Javascript to develop with it. Which is fine, but I don’t think it’s fair to either Squeak or Javascript or Lively to misrepresent this as a version of Squeak as it is no more that than Self is (less so in fact).

]]> By: J4 http://news.squeak.org/2008/01/12/lively-kernel-a-self-supporting-system-on-a-web-page/#comment-28260 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:08:02 +0000 http://news.squeak.org/2008/01/12/lively-kernel-a-self-supporting-system-on-a-web-page/#comment-28260 “He invented BitBlt”

No, he did not. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitblit .

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