On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 7:01 AM, Ron Teitelbaum <ron@usmedrec.com> wrote:

Not sure if everyone agrees but fwiw,

Latest virtual machines used in Squeak v3 and newer versions

Might be better stated as

Spur, Cog, Stack and Squeak v3 virtual machines.

And I would add something like "Spur is a new object representation for images introduced in 2016 that is now used in current Squeak, Pharo and Cuis releases."

The suggestion is because not everyone knows what a V3 virtual machine is. IMO the purpose of this page is to get people to the latest Spur VM and therefore it should be the first thing mentioned.

We might [also | instead] add a small description at the bottom

* "v3" is the original object representation for Squeak as described in the <a href='http://ftp.squeak.org/docs/OOPSLA.Squeak.html'>back-to-the-future</a> paper

+1.

All the best,

Ron

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:17 AM, K K Subbu <kksubbu.ml@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday 18 April 2018 11:32 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:

Hi Subbu,

Can we please lose the "experimental"? The distinction is between stable and tip, or stable and development. Back when Spur was being developed it was an experiment. Now it is a stable VM under development. The same goes for the Cog V3 VM.

How about this version? The page needs to be brief (but accurate) and redirect any viewers to the main site where more detail may be presented.

Regards .. Subbu

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best, Eliot