[Cuis-dev] Ropes paper, Traits & ropes

[Juan Vuletich]

On 5/18/2020 5:17 PM, ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev 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.  ;^)

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>> 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.

That's great!

> Any moderate low-carbon transport to FAST which is COVID free?

That would unlikely, I guess. Unless some time demand is high enough to 
start sail ship cruises all over the world...

> Perhaps after widespread vaccination, if I live that long.

Let's hope that happens before the end of this year, and that you'll 
live decades after that!

> 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

Great suggestion! Let's do it.

Cheers,

-- 
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