Self-Sustaining Systems First Workshop, S3 2008 Potsdam, Germany, May 15-16, 2008 Revised Selected Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hirschfeld, Robert (Editor), Rose, Kim (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5146
• Subjects: Computer science.; Special purpose computers.; Architecture, Computer.; Computer programming.; Operating systems (Computers).; Computers.; Computer Science.; Computer System Implementation.; Operating Systems.; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.; Models and Principles.; Programming Techniques.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems, S3, held in Potsdam, Germany, in May 2008. S3 is a forum for discussion of topics relating to computer systems and languages that are able to bootstrap, implement, modify, and maintain themselves. One pr...

Table of Contents:

• Invited Talks
• Open, Extensible Object Models
• The Lively Kernel A Self-supporting System on a Web Page
• On Sustaining Self
• Research Papers
• Huemul – A Smalltalk Implementation
• SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp
• Reflection for the Masses
• Back to the Future in One Week — Implementing a Smalltalk VM in PyPy
• Are Bytecodes an Atavism?.