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These pages describe Neo Smalltalk, (previously called "Self/R"), the core software in the Merlin project. Feel free to add your own comments on the various aspects of the design. See the "help" button for more information one how to edit pages. See the Introduction for the basic ideas behind Neo Smalltalk.

Request for Comments: Simpler Self

These are descriptions of how the different aspects of the system are being developed:

Object Model
Syntax
Persistent Object Storage (including a design for Viewpoints and Subjective Programming)
Parallelism
Squeak and Java Compatibility

An older page describes several different ideas for the Code Format, but the hardware description of the Plurion architecture is the definitive information about this.

The Fun INterActive Language (Final) is no longer being developed since it was replaced in the Oliver project with an embedded version of Self called "Smalltalk do Oliver". A description of its color syntax and hardware platform are still available, but see the Oliver processor page for the most recent version of the hardware.

Previous efforts can be found in http://www.merlintec.com/lsi/tiny.html. TinySelf 0 was essentially a parser in C for Self 3.0 files and tinySelf 1 was a parallel implementation of Self in Self 4.0.