Frost Project

Getting Started:

open -a /Users/jborden/vw8.1.1pul/bin/macx/visual.app /Users/jborden/vw8.1.1pul/image/Frost8.1_v2.im &

The interface could be improved - primarily for the store connection.

Tasks:

• Download VisualWorks, install and run Frost tests.
• Login to repository and add new tests

Project for Visualworks, other links:

• http://www.infoq.com/interviews/puls-bytecode
• SmaCC

See if QuickSilver can help. Read about Java proponents - are any from Oracle?

• Pharo Helvetia

Data Sources:

• Machine Learning
• Making Java like Smalltalk
• New java features
• see how this project works

VM training:

• http://som-st.github.io/
• handling text
• mapreduce
• Working with Java in Moose this may be related
• Whisper - a Jave interoperability for Squeak and Pharo
• compare Java and Pharo
• notes from a VM course
• a tiny compiler - can it be made smaller? Or a practical compiler video
• http://gchandbook.org/
• Programming Language theory
• a Metaprogramming Paper
• Java - older PL papers
• look into LLVM
• Another course

Why?

• Java is Cobol 2.0, Oracle is reducing interest in it (and financially)
• Oracle and Java
• Java is unsound
• 30 sec Java notes
• one vm and the pdf
• Some counter examples

Current work:

• 2015-Nov-24 - Try to get this to work:

  JavaSourceParser parse: 'public Color(int r, int g, int b) {
  	this(((r & 0xFF) << 16) | ((g & 0xFF) << 8) | ((b & 0xFF) << 0));
  	}' as: #ConstructorDeclaration.

• Test out fixing the interface - set the variable with:

  defaults write com.cincom.vw8.0 VISUALWORKS /Users/jborden/vw8.0.1pul

• maybe better visualization (Facebook), or Moose
• compare with this Lang compare project
• think about unnatural language processing
• make a research list for a clean image - Find out how namespaces work

Pharo work - Starting with this tutorial, code:

(XMLDOMParser parseURL:
    'http://myborden.com/static/css/example/Frost_xml.st') root elementsSelect: [ :each | (each isNamed: 'class') and: [ Smalltalk includesKey: (each contentStringAt: 'name') asSymbol ] ].

Read:

• testing these types of projects
• https://dogbolt.org/

Former greats:

• Frances Elizabeth Allen