Smalltalk Agents had no "primitives." (Read, no methods written in C.) The JIT w...

stcredzero on Aug 27, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing Surinx (Ruby syntax w/ Java typing)

Smalltalk Agents had no "primitives." (Read, no methods written in C.) The JIT was deemed good enough that everything could be written in Smalltalk. VisualWorks still has primitives, but a surprising number of things are written in Smalltalk, like Dictionary lookup.