> > Well, a while before that, i wrote own lobotomized smalltalk > implementation in C and started generating bindings to Ogre3D engine. I > even had certain success with it, but then i started grand-rewriting of VM > and abandoned it. > That was before i switched to Squeak, then Pharo. So, your incentives > quite familiar to me :) > I was quite fun journey, and i learned a lot while doing it.. especially > about smalltalk. > > I have no interest into implementing Smalltalk at C side , neither my purpose is education, quite the contrary I try to find way to utilize Pharo the best way possible without compromising on performance
> I don't understand why people find assembly scary or mind-boggling? I > dived into assembly few months after i learned my first programming > language, it was Zilog 8-bit CPU. A marvelous gem :) > And this was always fascinating to feel that you can control the > computer's behaviour down to a tiniest detail. We were even researching > what certain i/o ports and interrupts were responsible for by setting > different bits/bytes here and there and see what happen. > Because if you don't understand something down to the tiniest detail - you > cannot be sure that what you doing will work, or work optimally. > So i find it frustrating that most of programmers don't know and not even > thinking about touching assembly. Because it very simple, straightforward > and megalomaniac-rewarding :) > -- > Best regards, > Igor Stasenko. > Assembly is hard, just compare its hello world with the hello world of other progamming languages. Its just insane. The thing is that because we started on early , we experienced assembly when it used to be fairly simple. I started with an Amstrad CPC 6128 with 128 kb of ram and 4 mhz CPU, it uses Z80 assembly which is fairly simple even when compared to Pharo. Modern Assembly however have grown on complexity because it depend on the complexity of the hardware. Personally I don even like to call it a programming language , just beautified machine code. I agree though Assembly is a lot of fun and a great source of knowledge.
