Proof-of-concept Smalltalk implemented using Factor as a host VM

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10 pointsjckarter3 comments

The irony of the programming language toolkit explosion is that it looks like it's more fun to write tools to write programming languages than it is to write programming languages.

Cool stuff though.

Smalltalk is easy. There is so little grammar, that implementing it is a snap.

If the toolkit explosion is making it so easy, then maybe Stallman's original GUILE proposal will finally happen. (All scripting languages running on a common platform.)

I just have to put in another plug for GUILE. I've written a sizable chunk of my day-to-day shell scripts in it and it is such a pleasant environment in which to work.

Are there translators out there, for perl, python?

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