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From: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: smalltalk
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Date: Sun, 4-Sep-83 11:44:50 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  4 11:44:50 1983
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Reply-To: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer)
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The most available book on how Smalltalk-80 is implemented is
"Smalltalk-80.  The Language and its Implementation" by Adele Goldberg and
David Robson, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass, (c) 1983.  $37.25 or so.

150 pages are specifically devoted to implementation of the system
(i.e. how memory should look, what instruction set (or pseudo-set) is
expected and what "built-in" features of the language are required (e.g.
simple arithmetic.  

The book is not really a tutorial on the language (there really isn't one
yet), but it is the main book we are using as we try to learn to use
Smalltalk on our Xerox 1100.
You might also review the newsgroup net.lang.st80 (though it isn't real
active).
	Darrel J. Van Buer, Ph D
	System Development Corporation
arpa VanBuer@USC-ECL
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