[Cuis-dev] Ropes paper, Traits & ropes

[Hernan Wilkinson]

what about a sailboat trip to come to Argentina?? It may take a couple of
months but hey, who will take that from you?? 😉



On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 5:21 PM ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> 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
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