This is very very very cool, If i recall my pl research lore correctly, self even ~ 15 years ago had runtime/compiler tech that was at least par with 10 year ol

This is very very very cool, If i recall my pl research lore correctly, self even ~ 15 years ago had runtime/compiler tech that was at least par with 10 year old java. Also, its an objects all the way down language, so its quite pretty! (in terms of uniformity of semantics/syntax!) [added edit] I believe that the documents to substantiate this can be found at http://selflanguage.org/documentation/published/ http://selflanguage.org/documentation/published/ and I suspect that part of the reason for self's comparative advantage is that by having the core language be so uniform, every control/date structure and abstraction immediately benefits from any improvement in the runtime or optimization techniques (as is the case with scheme and to a moderate extent haskell as well).