Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
summary
Survey of specific features and results from older systems: Smalltalk uses an image-based immersive IDE with 66 collection classes and 32 numeric/magnitude classes that powers rich, language-level tooling; Self runs on just eight bytecodes, ships a JIT and prototype objects and directly inspires Java/JS hotspots; Racket offers structural pattern matching, per-file language declarations, an IDE and dramatic speed advantages versus Ruby; VPRI’s cola pursues a 20,000 lines whole-system, bootstrappable runtime with OMeta grammars and compact, provably smaller implementations.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Start
- 0:16Platinum Sponsor
- 3:46Ruby History
- 6:23Brief summary of Smalltalk
- 8:23Brief summary of self
- 9:58Brief summary of scheme
- 10:39Brief summary of racket
- 12:10Brief Summary of VPRI
- 12:55Brief Summary of COLA
- 22:02Prototyping is Handy!
- 26:17Visual
- 27:02Multiple Language Support
- 27:56Speed Comparison
- 28:34Tail Call
- 30:20Lambdas for
- 31:57650 kloc gtk GUI library
