See, I hear you describe things that are several orders of magnitude more high level than "implementation".
Assume that I'm coming from Retro Forth. Where the very first thing you see and breathe and live in is "exact layout of bytes/words/instructions" and you go up from there, but only a LITTLE up.
What might be a Retro Forth for Smalltalk?
@natecull @zens@merveilles.town
> See, I hear you describe things that are several orders of magnitude more high level than "implementation".
You can explore http://www.vpri.org/ and in particular this paper http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2006001a_colaswp.pdf
As noted by @zens, in this Smalltalk-like kernel language, the primary pattern is about mesages and late-binding.
The vpri project was an attempt to create a rich computing system, using a minimal amount of code and abstractions. Forth has the same scope, but it is mainly restricted to control systems, while the vpri project was oriented to a complete system with GUI, web and so on.
@mzan @zens
I really like what VPRI was trying to achieve with CoLA and I'm sad that they stopped. :(