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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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