Well, but imagine how complex that bootstrap becomes when you want to add
to your classes:

- traits
- layouts
- slots
...

And expressing all that in C also :)

El Fri Feb 06 2015 at 10:47:19 AM, Markus Fritsche <mfrits...@reauktion.de>
escribió:

>
> On 06.02.2015 09:33, stepharo wrote:
>
> In the coming months we will work on putting in place our bootstrapping
> kernel.
> There are no Smalltalk able to do that right now.
>
>
> GNU Smalltalk does just that, if it doesn't find an image, it will be
> bootstrapped by using the shipped .st fileouts.
>
> A bit of cheating is involved, a compiler & initialization is implemented
> on the VM side.
>
> So I would say "there are no Smalltalk that are able to do that right now
> the way we want to do it" :-P
>
> (Pissing at the door contest, to refer to another unquoted metaphor :-D)
>

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