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[Harrison R. Ulrich]

>Harrison R. Ulrich wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I was just looking at some of your Virtual ... work with Self.
>> Do the graphics primitives come built into Self?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dick Ulrich
>
>Dick,
>
>  The SELF langauge was used as a source of information.  The actual
>programming tool was developed in C++ (urgh!), and commincated with
>the SELF world in order to query about object structure and
>relations.  C++ was used basically because it had reasonably good
>performance, and I can live with the development cycle time.  SELF
>was used as a base language because it is a reflective language, which
>is composed of just slots, rather than having a data/method duality.
>
>I'm toying with SELF 4.0, thinking about incorporating the browser
>into the UI, but SELF is getting a bit resource hungry these days,
>and don't think it would be particulary usable.
>
>-- 
>Nick Drew
>nsd@cs.bham.ac.uk
>http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~nsd
>
>