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Smalltalk

Smalltalk is a purely object-oriented programming language that was originally created in the 1970s for educational use, specifically for constructionist learning, but later found use in business. It was created at Xerox PARC by Learning Research Group (LRG) scientists, including Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Adele Goldberg, Ted Kaehler, Diana Merry, and Scott…

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Designed by
Adele Goldberg, Dan Ingalls, Alan Kay
Developer
Peter Deutsch, Adele Goldberg, Dan Ingalls, Ted Kaehler, Alan Kay, Diana Merry, Scott Wallace and Xerox PARC
First appeared
1972; 54 years ago (1972) (development begun 1969)[citation needed]
Implementation language
Smalltalk
OS
cross-platform (multi-platform)
Paradigm
object-oriented

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Object-oriented programming

Reflection

Syntax

Control structures

Integrated Development Environment

Hello World example

Image-based persistence

Level of access

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OpenSmalltalk

Others

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Smalltalk

Nodes168
Edges167
Triples310
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011905
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Smalltalk

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related to Further reading · 75
Smalltalk → ACM, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Addison Wesley, Addison-Wesley, Adele, Advice, Alan, Andrew, Archived, August, Beginning, Bits, Black, Brauer, Byte, California, Center, Damien, Dan, David
related to Others · 21
Smalltalk → Amber Smalltalk, Cincom, CincomScratch, GemTalk SystemsGNU Smalltalk, GNUstep, GUI, IBMVisual Smalltalk Enterprise, JavaScript, Object ArtsEtoys, Object ConnectObjective-Smalltalk, Objective-C, Smalltalk-based, Smalltalk/VVisualWorks, Smalltalk/X, SmalltalkSmalltalk MT Smalltalk, SqueakGemStone/S, Sun Microsystem Labs, VisualAge Smalltalk, Windows, Windows-only
related to history · 17
Smalltalk → Adele Goldberg, Alan Kay, Center, Dan Ingalls, In September, Its, Kay, PARC, Smalltalk VMs, Smalltalk-71, Smalltalk-72, Smalltalk-80, The, There, VM, Xerox Alto, Xerox Palo Alto Research
related to Influences · 17
Smalltalk → Advanced Research Projects Agency-funded, Alan Kay, ARPA, CLOS, Dynabook, Flavors, GUIs, In, Internet, Java, Objective-C, Python, RAD, Ruby, Simula, The, Virtually
related to Image-based persistence · 15
Smalltalk → Alan Kay, Any, Class, FLEX, Image, In, Many Smalltalk, Most, OS, Sc, Smalltalk-like, The, They, This, Thus
related to OpenSmalltalk · 14
Smalltalk → As, Back-to-the-Future, BTTF, BTTF VM, Dan Ingalls, JIT, John Maloney, OpenSmalltalk VM, OS VM, Slang, Spur, Squeak, Ted Khaeler, The OS VM
related to Integrated Development Environment · 11
Smalltalk → Although, Icons, Integrated Development Environment, Menus, Pointers, Squeak, The, There, While, WIMP, Windows
related to Syntax · 11
Smalltalk → Alan Kay's, ANSI, English, From, In, Pseudo-variables, Ralph Johnson, Smalltalk-80, The, These, Thetrue
related to Browser · 10
Smalltalk → Collections-Abstract, Collections-Sequenceable, From, If, In, Kernel-Objects, Numbers, Smalltalk-80, Various, When
related to Object-oriented programming · 9
Smalltalk → An, As, Classes, Each, For, GUI's, Smalltalk-72, Smalltalk-80, The

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message objects code object smalltalk-80 system language one method example messages also classes class programming syntax first development environment languages

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SmalltalkDesigned byAdele Goldberg, Dan Ingalls, Alan Kay1.00infobox
SmalltalkDeveloperPeter Deutsch, Adele Goldberg, Dan Ingalls, Ted Kaehler, Alan Kay, Diana Merry, Scott Wallace and Xerox PARC1.00infobox
SmalltalkFirst appeared1972; 54 years ago (1972) (development begun 1969)[citation needed]1.00infobox
SmalltalkImplementation languageSmalltalk1.00infobox
SmalltalkOScross-platform (multi-platform)1.00infobox
SmalltalkParadigmobject-oriented1.00infobox
SmalltalkPlatformXerox Alto (74181)1.00infobox
SmalltalkScopelexical (static)1.00infobox
SmalltalkStable releaseSmalltalk-80 version 2 / 1980; 46 years ago (1980)1.00infobox
SmalltalkTyping disciplineobjects, but in some implementations, strong or dynamic1.00infobox
Smalltalkis apurely object-oriented programming language that was originally created in the 1970s for educational use0.90text
Smalltalkis afree software implementation of a derivative of Smalltalk-80 from the GNU project0.90text
Smalltalkis afork of Squeak oriented toward research and use in commercial environments.As of 20160.90text
Smalltalkis astructurally reflective system which structure is defined by Smalltalk-80 objects0.90text

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