[Cuis-dev] Ropes paper, Traits & ropes

[Juan Vuletich]

On 5/9/2020 11:33 AM, ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev wrote:
> On 2020-05-09 00:04, Casey Ransberger via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
>> I'm actually curious about the 1994 ("received") date. ...
> ..
>> Definitely older than 1995. Not sure by how much.
>
> Casey,
>
> You are not looking back far enough.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(programming_language)
>
> I worked in the early '80s in the Tektronix Research Lab with a guy 
> who had worked on/with Cedar and told me about ropes.  I was 
> interested enough to twist his arm a bit and got a bootlegged listing 
> of the Cedar/Mesa rope implementation code to see how they did it.
>
> This was when Tektronix internally had the Magnolia personal 
> workstation which ran Tektronix Smalltalk.  I was working with a group 
> which did a Scheme native code compiler for the Motorola 88K.  Many 
> interesting programming language implementation discussions at the time.
>
> I think Cedar was considered "old" then!  8^)  Now it is me that's 
> old!  8^(  Er, make that long-lived.  8^)
>
> Cheers,
> -KenD

Gosh, Ken. I would really like to spend an evening with you and other 
friends over beer listening to those stories!

Maybe you'd consider coming to the Smalltalks argentine conference some 
time. You'd have a great time.

Cheers,

-- 
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