<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>This is nice! <br><br>Smalltalk actually got started by thinking about a way to make a child's Logo-like language with objects and pattern matching that could express its own operating system and environment.<br><br>It is very tricky to retain/maintain readability (so the first Smalltalk was also an extensible language not just semantically but syntactically). <br><br>With a tile language, this is really worth thinking about, since using tiles suggests ways to extend both the form and the meaning of the tiles.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Alan<br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> C.
Scott Ananian <cscott@laptop.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> IAEP SugarLabs <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org>; OLPC Devel <devel@lists.laptop.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, May 20, 2011 6:30:08 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [IAEP] Turtles All The Way Down<br></font><br>
I've done a little more work on "Turtles All The Way Down", which I<br>(very briefly) discussed at EduJam. I actually wrote a garbage<br>collector in TurtleScript for TurtleScript on Sunday. Brief writeup<br>here:<br><span> <a target="_blank" href="http://cananian.livejournal.com/64140.html">http://cananian.livejournal.com/64140.html</a></span><br>and exhaustive mind-numbing detail here:<br><span> <a target="_blank" href="http://cscott.net/Projects/TurtleScript/">http://cscott.net/Projects/TurtleScript/</a></span><br><br>No actual turtles yet! I'm going to have to fix that soon.<br> --scott<br><br>-- <br><span> ( <a target="_blank" href="http://cscott.net">http://cscott.net</a> )</span><br>_______________________________________________<br>IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br><a ymailto="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org"
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