RE: Hello... I'm back, did I miss anything?

*giggle*

  - A.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Aaron
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 9:33 PM
> To: squeak-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Hello... I'm back, did I miss anything?
> 
> 
> On 31 Jul 2002, Scott A Crosby wrote:
> 
> > Hello...
> >
> > I'm back after about 2 months. (moving sucks)
> >
> > Have I missed any messages that would be relevant to my 
> earlier work?
> > (fulltext index, new method cache, V4, Identity*** fixups)?
> 
> You could say that.  While you were gone, we held a vote and 
> a period of
> to allow comments on the issue of getting rid of the 
> Smalltalk in Squeak,
> and going to Java.  Don't worry, Morphic will still be there, 
> but you'll
> have to access it with Java.  We did use your V4 work, 
> though, so I'm sure
> it'll be very familiar.
> 
> We renamed Squeak to Jo-Jo, so now we have the usual group running
> Jo-Jo-Central. A month ago, SqC was purchased by Sun.  The 
> lot of them.
> Some people here seem to think that the switch from Smalltalk 
> to Java has
> something to do with the buyout, but I find it unlikely.  It 
> was odd, but
> when we had the call for votes and comments, there was an overwhelming
> response *for* Java, from a lot of people I've never seen on 
> this list.
> Funny thing is, replies to their emails bounced.  Nothing suspicious
> there, I suppose.
> 
> The Jo-Jo deviates a bit from standard Java, noteworthy differences
> include:
> 
> 1. No automagic garbage collection.  Must call 
> System.IO.memory.GC.fullGC();
> or System.IO.memory.GC.singleGenerationGC(); whenever a GC seems
> appropriate.
> 
> 2. No Swing, for now.  Jo-JoC plans to migrate to all GUI 
> stuff to Swing
> within the next year, though.
> 
> 3. Weak typing.  Like C pointers.
> 
> 4. Operator Overloading (WOW!)
> 
> 5. A lot more that everyone will tell you.  Keep your eyes 
> open, a lot of
> work is going on on this front, and there will be a swiki up soon!
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Aaron
> 
> 
>