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authormjl <mjl@pkgsrc.org>2001-07-10 22:31:06 +0000
committermjl <mjl@pkgsrc.org>2001-07-10 22:31:06 +0000
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Gnu smalltalk 1.95.4
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- GNU Smalltalk is an implementation that closely follows the
-Smalltalk-80 language as described in the book `Smalltalk-80: the
-Language and its Implementation' by Adele Goldberg and David Robson.
-
- The Smalltalk programming language is an object oriented programming
-language. This means, for one thing, that when programming you are
-thinking of not only the data that an object contains, but also of the
-operations available on that object.
-
- In the Smalltalk language, everything is an object. This includes
-numbers, executable procedures (methods), stack frames (called method
-contexts or block contexts), etc. Each object is an "instance" of a
-"class". A class can be thought of as a datatype and the set of
-functions that operate on that datatype. An instance is a particular
-variable of that datatype. When you want to perform an operation on an
-object, you send it a "message", and the object performs an operation
-that corresponds to that message.
-
- Unlike other Smalltalks (including Smalltalk-80), GNU Smalltalk
-emphasizes Smalltalk's rapid prototyping features rather than the
-graphical and easy-to-use nature of the programming environment.
+Smalltalk is a Free (or Open Source) implementation that closely
+follows the Smalltalk-80 language as described in the book
+Smalltalk-80: the Language and its Implementation by Adele
+Goldberg and David Robson.