Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!olson From: olson@sax.cs.uiuc.edu (Bob Olson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: public domain Smalltalk from GNU Message-ID: Date: 22 Oct 90 12:59:48 GMT References: <9392@helios.TAMU.EDU> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu's message of 21 Oct 90 21:18:38 GMT In article <9392@helios.TAMU.EDU> cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Chuck Herrick) writes: > I understand a dialect of smalltalk is available from FSF > (Free Software Foundation) by ftp to prep.ai.mit.edu and > is located in /pub/gnu. > Is anyone out there working on bringing up smalltalk on a > NeXT? I've thought about it a bit. The bare GNUsmalltalk version compiles and runs fine on the NeXT, but without graphical interface of course. I don't think it would be too much trouble to put together the lowlevel requirements for the graphical support. A question: is there a public-domain version of the smalltalk code for the programming environment somewhere? I don't have the time to recreate the entire environment. Another issue with a NeXT port is that of interfacing Smalltalk with Objective-C. It would be cool if one could reference the Obj-C class library (with all the nifty NeXT user interface objects) from within Smalltalk. I imagine it could be done without *too* much work.... --bob Bob Olson University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign Internet: rolson@uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet|convex|pur-ee}!uiucdcs!olson UIUC NeXT Campus Consultant NeXT mail: olson@fazer.champaign.il.us "You can't win a game of chess with an action figure!" AMA #522687 DoD #28