The Squeak mailing list is continuing the discussion of how to port Squeak
to Newton, and it's pretty interesting. Two ports to RISC-processors have
already been done, so there's a cross-port possibility, but others being
discussed include Squeak-in-Forth.
BTW, there is also a Lisp 1.5 for Newton -- the ORIGINAL Lisp ("We don't
need no steenkin' DEFUNs!") where functions are created by assigning a
symbol to a lambda function. Not exactly a viable alternative...
Mark
At 8:24 AM 12/21/96, Gregory Abowd wrote:
>In case you didn't know about this, here is the latest on
>a C++ alternative to NTK for developing on the Newton.
>
>The other alternatives that I am aware of for NTK programming
>are NS Basic, a development environment by a guy named Steve
>Weyer (I don't know about this) and rumors that Squeak (a
>Smalltalk variant) will be available soon.
>
>Gregory
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>I wanted to get back to you regarding the promise (that I
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>sorry to say that I will not be able to fulfill my promise.
>The engineering and software quality groups have worked
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>P.S. The Desktop Integration Libraries for Windows, version
>1.0.2 are now available for download from the Newton
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