Will Google See This Chance? (was Re: IBM and Smalltalk)

"azgolfer 写道：
"
> So to summarize the situation,
>
> 1. We have a mostly completed world class VM and compiler.
> 2. This is our only real hope of having a truly dynamic and fast
> programming language in the near future.
> 3. There are about 5 people who know the internals of this.
> 4. They all have day jobs.
>
> What if we create a donations campaign ? 5,000 programmers donating $20
> would give us $100,000.00. Then one or more of the people from 3. above
> could take a (paid) leave of absence, finish the VM and compiler, and
> we'd have our language/VM. After all, the ones who really benefit from
> a good language are the programmers.

Now, will Google see this chance to move the earth?
Buy and sponsor Strongtalk from Sun, keep it open and free, let the VM
experts back to work on it again, what will Google benefit from helping
all dynamic languages and generations of people? I wish I could present
this to them.

Maybe some people can find ways to persuad Google to do this?


Best Regards,

Jim G
a Smalltalk user


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