Re: [Edu-sig] Reloading code (was Re: OLPC: first thoughts)
Speakingf as swho has maintained a smalltalk interpreter ... In a message of Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:25:01 EST, "Paul D. Fernhout" writes: <skip damn near all of it>
Ah, because its we have tons of legacy Smalltalk code that was really well and truly built with the idea that the VM would never change and we could play tricks on its bytecode forever. Lots of us did strage and wonderfukl things and now no change to the byte code, no matter how reasonable on the surface, will break many things. Stuff that just got stored that weay bwecause, 'why not' and now is stuck in the space that is between 'officially sanctioned' and 'used commonly' for various vaÃlues of common. Its enough tomake smalltalk hackers want to make changes in the language as never is to change the bytecode. Because everbody as matters is making their own hacks with live-but-modified bytecode. Laura
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