python on the smalltalk VM

Courageous jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Sat Apr 21 11:39:20 EDT 2001


On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 03:05:53 GMT, "David Simmons" <pulsar at qks.com> wrote:

>Typical asynchronous foreign function calling (in or out) is measured in
>10's of millions of calls per/second including the dynamic/adaptive
>marshalling and exception management for calling through mechanisms such as
>COM/ActiveX, etc (which the JIT optimizes). The AOS platform's object model
>supports dynamic languages and typing that includes a full type
>architecture, concrete and abstract interfaces (mixins), namespaces,
>closures, continuations, unified string/character model (for
>NLS/Unicode/CodePages/etc), and multi-method dispatch (method selection
>based on type overloading of arguments).

*gulp, gulp, gulp, drinking coffee*

KEWL, DOOOOD, WAY2GOMAN, U-ROCK.

:-)

C//




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