Re:Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984)
by igouy on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:29PM
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> you saved your work by snapshotting the entire VM state
That doesn't seem likely, that wasn't the recommended approach to managing source code in Smalltalk — but I have no personal experience with Self.
Seems like it might depend on which version of Self is being discussed.
"To briefly recap, the Self transporter allows the programmer to take a program that adds some functionality to a snapshot and move that program to another snapshot. It accomplishes this task by writing the slots that comprise the program to a source file that can be read in and evaluated in the new snapshot to recreate the program."
That doesn't seem likely, that wasn't the recommended approach to managing source code in Smalltalk — but I have no personal experience with Self.
Seems like it might depend on which version of Self is being discussed.
"To briefly recap, the Self transporter allows the programmer to take a program that adds some functionality to a snapshot and move that program to another snapshot. It accomplishes this task by writing the slots that comprise the program to a source file that can be read in and evaluated in the new snapshot to recreate the program."
https://bluishcoder.co.nz/self/transporter.pdf