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	talk small "Smalltalk's design--and existence--is due to the insight that everything we can describe can be represented by the recursive composition of a single kind of behavioral building block that hides its combination of state and process inside itself and can be dealt with only through the exchange of messages." -- Alan Kay, "The history of smalltalk". ACM Sigplan Not. (Mar 1993)
Smalltalk Balloon Byte - August 1981

Reading Smalltalk

• Reading Smalltalk by Jim Sawyer
  This article will provide both an educational and perhaps humorous few moments of reading for the Smalltalkers among us. The author warns: "If it starts to make sense to you then by all means stop reading Smalltalk, you are in serious danger. More on this later...".

  It will also be useful to those new to Smalltalk that are interested in quickly learning the syntax of the language - it is remarkably simple. The article was written by Jim Sawyer and was discovered at:

       http://www.jera.com/techinfo/
  

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This is an archive of messages sent to the User Group.

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Smalltalk and OODBMS Information

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Squeak

• Click here to Squeak!
  You always knew that you could Squeak and now you can! Squeak is a free Smalltalk that keeps getting better.

Other Goodies

• The Refactoring Browser
  One of the more important productivity tools for Smalltalkers.

• Download of GemStone/S
  An object-oriented database that works with Smalltalk.

• Free Non-Commercial Download of VisualWorks
  A Smalltalk development tool - available now for Power Macintosh, Linux, Windows 95 and NT platforms.

• Download of Smalltalk X
  A Smalltalk development tool with source - available now for Linux, Windows 95 and NT platforms.

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Last updated - 4 July 2004
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