Notes concerning “Smalltalk”

• Why John Backus Was on the Wrong Track 2007 (updated 2019-05-05) (48 minutes)
• Using bytecode won’t make your interpreter fast 2007 to 2009 (26 minutes)
• bytecode interpreters for tiny computers 2007-09 (61 minutes)
• Iterative string formatting 2013-05-17 (9 minutes)
• More thoughts on powerful primitives for simplified computer systems architecture 2015-08-18 (updated 2015-11-02) (165 minutes)
• Compact namespace sharing 2016-07-25 (7 minutes)
• Queueing messages to amortize dynamic dispatch and take advantage of hardware heterogeneity 2016-09-17 (13 minutes)
• Thredsnek: a tiny Python-flavored programming language 2017-03-20 (7 minutes)
• Compact code cpu 2017-07-19 (3 minutes)
• Rarely are function-local variables in Forth justified 2018-04-27 (10 minutes)
• Quasimode keyboard 2018-07-14 (24 minutes)
• Introduction to closures 2019-12-07 (5 minutes)