Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!mtiame!jep From: jep@mtiame.mtia.oz (Jesper Peterson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Smalltalk on the Amiga Message-ID: <1991Jan23.031238.11291@mtiame.mtia.oz> Date: 23 Jan 91 03:12:38 GMT References: <6115@dave> Organization: Metal Trades Industry Association, Victoria, Australia. Lines: 29 In article cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) writes: >>>>>> On 18 Jan 91 14:50:39 GMT, dave@Software.Mitel.COM (David Springgay) said: > >Dave> Does anyone know if there is a Smalltalk programming environment >Dave> for the Amiga? Thanks in advance for any replies. > >The only Smalltalk that I have seen for the Amiga is a version of Little >Smalltalk that was on early Fred Fish disks. I believe that was version 1.0 >of Little Smalltalk and there is now a 2.0 version around. Neither implement >more than the basic Smalltalk language (no graphics or anything). I'm working on a port of GNU Smalltalk 1.1 which follows the Smalltalk-80 standard quite closely. At the rate I'm going it won't be "finished" until mid-year. Unfortunately I'm temporarily stymied by lack of memory. I only have 3 Meg and this is "GNU" code (know what I mean?). This implementation, like little-st, has no graphics support but I'll have a go that too (probably a year away though). If anyone can do a port sooner thay are of course welcome to do so. I must warn that the code is quite ugly. The C code for the interpreter has been hand-optimised, so it relies extensively on side-effects (some of them compiler dependent). It's a bitch to debug. Jesper. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ USEnet: jep@mtiame.mtia.oz.au UUCP: ...!uunet!munnari!mtiame.oz!jep [...] I had to leave out reality to keep the post clean and to the point. - jeremy@milton.u.washington.edu (Jeremy York) in rec.music.misc