[Cuis-dev] Ropes paper, Traits & ropes

[ken.dickey at whidbey.com]

On 2020-05-18 16:08, Juan Vuletich wrote:
> On 5/9/2020 11:33 AM, ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev wrote:
..
>> 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.
..
> Gosh, Ken. I would really like to spend an evening with you and other
> friends over beer listening to those stories!

Gak!  It is worse.  I was at Apple's research lab when Squeak was 
created and did some early benchmarking with John Maloney.  Ted Kaehler 
might remember me.  Larry Tesler was my hiring manager at Apple.  I also 
did some runtime evaluation and benchmarking at Apple on Dave Simmon's 
Smalltalk Agents (as well as some Java VM eval/support).

Guilt by association.  ;^)

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

I have not been on an airplane in almost two decades due to carbon 
usage.  I am in a net-zero house and am having more PV put up with plans 
to get a Tesla and still be net-zero.

Any moderate low-carbon transport to FAST which is COVID free?  Perhaps 
after widespread vaccination, if I live that long.

I am not a Zoom user and don't own a cell phone, but perhaps we could 
each hoist a beer on the other side of a desktop screen.  Google 
Hangouts? Zoom? Skype? Whatever..

Good on ya,
-KenD