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How Smalltalk was bootstrapped?

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ale...@mail.ru

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May 23, 2009, 3:24:12 AM5/23/09
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Objects has method collections.
Collections are objects that has methods.
Chicken-egg problem -- how MethodDictionary's was constructed
initially?

Thanks to all for the answers.

rush

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May 24, 2009, 5:46:07 PM5/24/09
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I guess one of the possible answers can be found here:

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=263754&coll=portal&dl=ACM

Other than that, if you were building a new Smalltalk, I guess in the
first times, you would run indside some other stable Smalltalk, until
you would get enough things done so that you can run standalone in
your own image.

rush
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Udo Schneider

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May 24, 2009, 5:57:11 PM5/24/09
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rush schrieb:

> I guess one of the possible answers can be found here:
>
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=263754&coll=portal&dl=ACM
For those w/o an ACM account a version can be found here:
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr1997001_backto.pdf

CU,

Udo

Guido Stepken

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Nov 17, 2009, 7:44:44 PM11/17/09
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ale...@mail.ru schrieb:

Good question. Classes are instances of metaclasses, which are also
objects ... hmmmm .... :-)

Have fun, Guido Stepken

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