Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote: > I thought it was Peter Deutsch who originally said "you can cheat if you > don't get caught." regarding Smalltalk implementations
I think the source of the attribution to Ingalls is this paper: The Smalltalk-76 Programming System - Design and Implementation Daniel H. H. Ingalls <http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/St76/Smalltalk76ProgrammingSystem.html> # Efficient Message Handling # It should be obvious that to carry the message sending metaphor down into # integer arithmetic will result in a slow system on any non message # oriented computer. The implementor must cheat, but not get caught. In # other words, the user of the system should not perceive any # non-uniformity. It is possible that Deutsch said it earlier, of course. -- David-Sarah Hopwood _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list Es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
