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From: graver@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Smalltalk for (embedded) real-time
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Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 11:16:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 15 11:16:00 1987
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The only problem with trying to write a Smalltalk "program" that sends
no messages that allocate memory is that such programs would be VERY
limited in usefulness.  Any message must be sent to an object, the receiver.
Only if the recceiver already exists, say, in the global dictionary
Smalltalk, can even the simple task of sending a message be done without
allocating new memory.  If one wants to program in Smalltalk using only
pre-existant object and using almost none of the existing system code, good
luck.  I would not want to attempt such a feat.