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This whole case is very strange. From my point of view (I studied law, among other things) there is no justification to take action against this tool or its authors. There are various contents on Yout…

What's the alternative then?

Interesting article. I agree that we should be able to expect that Wikipedia is a neutral source. > Shuichi Tezuka and Linda A. Ashtear are pseudonyms of two American academics. Do academics in the…

I'm asking myself the same question with more than 50% of all posts meanwhile.

So here some references in case you don't believe that there was EU funding: https://doc.pypy.org/en/release-1.9/index-report.html https://ieeexplore.ieee.or…

> Lua doesn’t have assignment as an expression. That's quite easy to achieve if you directly generate bytecode. See e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/som . > Lua 5.…

> 4 times is a huge boost, and that's on average. It's in geometric mean, not average (see http://ece.uprm.edu/~nayda/Courses/Icom5047F06/Papers/paper4…

CPython could implement an alternative, more efficient FFI (such as e.g. the one by LuaJIT) which would not slow down PyPy. So people could gradually migrate.

PyPy is about four times faster than CPython ( https://speed.pypy.org/ ) which is not that much compared to the effort. Node.js is about 13 times faster ( https://benchmarksga…

How would you explain then that LuaJIT is so much faster than CPython? Even the interpreter of LuaJIT is much faster. > The only way to speed it up would be to change the language. What specificall…

Is this real? Is there evidence that the letter really was sent by authorized persons representing the foundation? If it was only sent by email, it has no legal relevance anyway. I would ignore such a…

The interview with Roger Penrose was excellent. And apparently Fridman has discovered a market niche, which seems to convince the interviewees.

I preferred his digital piano. That was real and had a good sound quality (for its time).

This is a discussion based on provable facts. Science needs no proof of authority.

Well, ARC/ORC is a reference-counting concept for one part and also a new implementation for Nim. MPS is a mature and proven implementation of a whole memory management infrastructure which offer…

Why not using something like https://github.com/Ravenbrook/mps ?

If it's about the REPL then you could also have a look at Forth. It seems that in Espurino you have to pay attention to quite a lot of things to achieve a decent performance: http://ww…

There were namespaces (aka environments).

Actually Smalltalk-72 seems to better reflect Kay's vision of "object-oriented" than Smalltalk-80; see e.g. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386335 . U…

Like https://hub.docker.com/r/drmeister/cando/ ?

I spent much of my life in an with Smalltalk images (some would say too much), and there were also the big names and figures when I did Smalltalk projects in the nineties. Some of the issues could be …

Happy who lives in a country where reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability is explicitly allowed by law. So do we have to expect more economic refugees from the USA in Europe in the fu…

Well, you were asking.

> So don't get-rid, now where is "the problem"? Well, not every software manufacturer want's to deploy all development tools used to develop the software and possibly code whic…

The origin of the graphical user interface was actually elswhere. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environm... system had a display system with a "gra…

> For example Getting rid of objects not belonging to the application to be deployed is difficult or impossible. According to my analysis of the original ST80 v2 virtual image there is a very high …

No doubt that some people consider it interesting. I personally would have appreciated a brief specific list of recommendations of the author of the post on what to improve. Maybe you can give such a …

So someone stopped visiting HN ten years ago. Is this really worth a post on HN and more than a hundred comments? Personally, I can't understand the statements of the person concerned; what bothe…

The influence of Smalltalk is generally overestimated, especially also in the referenced article. The author does not present evidence for his assertions, but simply the opinions of any people.

Thanks. As I said, it's just about the wording. In the matter we are talking about the same. My whole point was to demonstrate to the fellow that it is well possible to use the Smalltalk language…