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SmallTalk (also Smalltalk)

A SmallTalk was the first popular object-oriented programming language. In an object-oriented programming language, the computations are treated as objects, which lets the programmer reuse the objects. Developed at Xerox Parc, SmallTalk is not only a programming language, it is also a programming environment which is both reusable and extensible.

SmallTalk is more interactive than other programming languages. It is a language that makes almost all of its source-code visible to the programmer on-line. This means that the development process can be much more rapid than when using a traditional compiler- based language.

URLs:

The Art and Science of Smalltalk: This site includes a preface to this book on SmallTalk by Simon Lewis and a table of contents.
comp.lang.smalltalk: This site is the perfect place to bring questions and regarding SmallTalk.

W3E References:

object oriented

Print References:

Object Oriented Modeling and Design by James Rumbaugh, Michael Blaha, William Premerlani, Frederick Eddy and William Lorensen. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 1991. 0-13-629841-9
Que's Computer and Internet Dictionary by Brian Pfaffenberger with David Wall. Que, Indianapolis, IN. 1995. ISBN: 0-7897-0356-4

Detail:

One criticism leveled at SmallTalk has been that it is less efficient because it is interpreted, rather than compiled. Advocates of object- oriented programming would respond that the use of an interpreter is more than compensated for by better implementations of data structures and algorithms.

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