The Weekly Squeak

Smalltalk-80 started out using a graphics system called MVC (model view controller) and evolved to use a system from the Self language called Morphic. For those interested in using a Squeak image a little closer to the original Smalltalk-80, two images have appeared. Both are a little closer to the Smalltalk system described in Adele…

Namespaces allow two classes with the same name to live in a single image. Creating namespaces has been a goal for Squeak since it’s creation. Nothing has seemed quite right. Using Newspeak as his inspiration, Colin Putney has created Environments. Explore this innovation with the mailing list conversation and a downloadable image at http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-June/164605.html 

Dan Ingalls was at JSConf in Scottsdale, Arizona in April demoing Lively Kernel. There is a video of his presentation from the event available at: http://blip.tv/jsconf/jsconf2012-daniel-henry-holmes-ingalls-jr-6106503 Lively Kernel has been evolving for some years now and it will be interesting to see the applications built with it in the near future.

With a transition looming from 32-bit to 64-bit, the VM-dev mailing list had a discussion about what the new object format should be. One of the issues was whether the new object format should have an immutability bit. A wide range of opinions appeared and at times the debate became somewhat heated. It is an…

Cuis now has its own mailing list. Congratulations, Cuis!