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squint - Rob Pike's Newsqueak interpreter for Unix
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squint - Rob Pike's Newsqueak interpreter for Unix

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rwos/newsqueak
• Owner: rwos
• Created: 2011-11-06T13:49:05.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-10-21T14:20:40.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-12T05:33:01.489Z (4 months ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage: http://herpolhode.com/rob/
• Size: 370 KB
• Stars: 34
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README

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README

        
/*

 * Rob Pike, January 2000

 *

 * Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies.

 * Libraries ported by Sape Mullender.

 *

 * This software is placed in the public domain provided this author notice is retained.

 */

This package builds squint, the Newsqueak interpreter, on Linux.

It should be easy to get to work on other Unix variants.

It has no graphics support, although vestiges exist in the source.

The package also includes a small subset of the Plan 9 C library

because it was easier to include it than to remove squint's

dependency on the installable print format stuff.

BUILDING

Run `make all' in this directory.  Everything should compile

without warnings.

TESTING

After building, cd squint and try

	squint progs/sieve2

You should see some prime numbers.

Additionally, 'make regress' in the squint directory will run

some tests and check the output.

DOCUMENTATION

The man directory contains information about the print library.

The doc directory contains a reference manual and a paper

about implementation, taken from 

	The Implementation of Newsqueak

	    Rob Pike

	    Software - Practice and Experience, Jul 1990

	    Vol 20 #7, pp 649-659

That same issue has a paper by Doug McIlroy that is necessary reading,

but I don't have a .ps version of the paper.