Minimal image stripper

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

For those of you not on the VWNC list here is an interesting post from Terry Raymond. He now has 2.2 mb base image which I believe he is using to support Smalltalk scripting type of functionality. The image only supports file-ins and chunck format at that but he stated the he could probably add [...]

Making your filenames work in Linux

Saturday, August 27th, 2005

So I am in the middle of porting the NYC Smalltalk servers to CentOS. One of the issues that I ran into is that in Windows I setup the “start in” directory for the images (VisualWorks images i.e not gifs, etc) that I launch to be the directory where the image resides. In Linux I [...]

Russell’s Antinomy

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

From the VisualWorks Non-Commercial List

Given the following code:

set1 := Set with: 2 with: 3 with: 4.
set2 := Set with: 4 with: 3 with: 2.

Should:
set1 = set2 ?
BTW, the above in Smalltalk reads set1 is equal to set2.
The answer is that in VisualWorks it does not but in Squeak it does. I favor the Squeak [...]