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From: kinner@wsucshp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Little Smalltalk for the Amiga
Message-ID: <160001@wsucshp.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Feb-87 12:09:04 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  5 12:09:04 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Feb-87 01:41:27 EST
Organization: WSU Computer Science
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A while back someone asked about the Little Smalltalk system, available
for the Amiga on Fish Disk 37.  Little Smalltalk was originally written 
for Unix by Timothy A. Budd, currently at Oregon State.  It is a line-
oriented version of Smalltalk, ideal for people who are interested in
learning the Smalltalk language without all the "graphexcess baggage".

While there are a number of Smalltalk features missing, I found it to
be in many ways an improvement, in line with the philosophy that smaller
is better.  For example there are no Metaclasses.

There are classes for Bag, Set, Dictionary, File, Array, String, etc.
as found in Smalltalk-80, classes which support quasi-concurrency
(Process and Semaphore), plus a few new ones (Interval and ByteArray).
The system allows escape to your favorite editor where class descrip-
tions can be edited and new ones created.

Best of all, the system comes with complete source for the interpreter
in C.

Budd has jus written a book entitled "A Little Smalltalk", published
by Addison-Wesley.

Further information, including a newsletter, is available from

     Smalltalk Distribution
     Department of Computer Science
     Oregon State University
     Corvallis Oregon 97331