(Ovid: Merlin - not merlyn) Re: Java and Self (Was "Obviously, You Will Need a Java Course...")

Amusingly, you can find out more about Self at this link, which is about the "The Merlin Object-Oriented System", an OS written in Self. You can find links to more information about the Self language at the bottom of the page.

Cheers,
Ovid

Join the Perlmonks Setiathome Group or just click on the the link and check out our stats.

Comment on (Ovid: Merlin - not merlyn) Re: Java and Self (Was "Obviously, You Will Need a Java Course...")

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Java and Self by IlyaM (Parson) on Nov 29, 2001 at 04:02 UTC
I found some links about Self including Sun's page. It seems that Self indeed affected Java developement. But I could not find any evidence that Sun's Java VM itself is primarily written in Self.	[reply]
Re: Re: Java and Self by merlyn (Sage) on Nov 29, 2001 at 04:24 UTC
I found a message in a thread and another message that may be of interest. I may have also misunderstood some of the lineage. Apparently, the Self people wrote a Java VM in Self, and found it to be faster than the Sun-produced Java VMs, so that became the basis of Hotspot, which is now at the core of the current Sun Java VM. Whether any of the Self Java VM code survived intact, I cannot tell. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]