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Torsten Bergmann

Just in case ...

Short mental exercise:

What if ... diskpacks are burned and someone would come, give you
enough time and resources to (re)implement the Pharo system and VM
from scratch:

Pharo Image/Sources
- how would it look like
- how would it differ from current design
- what would be included
- how would it be maintained
- how would it be used/who would use it

VM
- how would it look like
- how would it differ from current VM design
- how would it be implemented/generated
- how would it be maintained

Even answers are welcome with ideas impossible to realize
in the near future ... but it may help to find

- possible next steps
- features we havent thought about, yet

Thx
T.

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Max Leske

Re: Just in case ...

Sources / changes files:

As far as I'm concerned: not needed anymore. If there is to be a file that contains source code it should have a different format than the changes / sources files have today:

they are very hard to understand when looked at with a text editor
the mechanism used to read / write the files should not be hard coded into the filesystem library
if the files contain special symbols (#method, #preamble, #classComment etc.), give the symbols a place to live and don't expect developers to go and collect symbols from serveral different methods
DOCUMENT THE FORMAT AND THE IMPLEMENATION!

Finally. That had to get out... :)

Cheers,

Max

On 20.05.2011, at 16:02, Torsten Bergmann wrote:

Short mental exercise:

What if ... diskpacks are burned and someone would come, give you
enough time and resources to (re)implement the Pharo system and VM
from scratch:

Pharo Image/Sources
- how would it look like
- how would it differ from current design
- what would be included
- how would it be maintained
- how would it be used/who would use it

VM
- how would it look like
- how would it differ from current VM design
- how would it be implemented/generated
- how would it be maintained

Even answers are welcome with ideas impossible to realize
in the near future ... but it may help to find

- possible next steps
- features we havent thought about, yet

Thx
T.

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