Friday, September 26, 2003
Smalltalk report archive
This is cool. An archive of the Smalltalk Report is available online here.
When I attended the first OOPSLA conference in 1986, most of the papers were on Smalltalk. Lots of companies (including IBM) got on the Smalltalk bandwagon in a big way. Commercial Smalltalk environments were available from ParcPlace Systems, Digitalk, IBM, etc. on everything from DOS to Macintoshes to Unix workstations. Other OOP languages, especially C++ came into their own a few years later.
Smalltalk started a slow decline in usage through the mid 90s, especially when Java came along. It could be argued that Smalltalk had a longer and more viable commercial life than other dynamic languages such as Lisp but it never "broke through" as a general-purpose language. A revival of interest in Smalltalk seems to be happening, especially as a result of Squeak programming environment. If you're looking to read about Smalltalk, the best place to start is with the classic book Smalltalk-80: The Language. This book on Squeak is pretty good as well. (Via . Lambda the Ultimate)
When I attended the first OOPSLA conference in 1986, most of the papers were on Smalltalk. Lots of companies (including IBM) got on the Smalltalk bandwagon in a big way. Commercial Smalltalk environments were available from ParcPlace Systems, Digitalk, IBM, etc. on everything from DOS to Macintoshes to Unix workstations. Other OOP languages, especially C++ came into their own a few years later.
Smalltalk started a slow decline in usage through the mid 90s, especially when Java came along. It could be argued that Smalltalk had a longer and more viable commercial life than other dynamic languages such as Lisp but it never "broke through" as a general-purpose language. A revival of interest in Smalltalk seems to be happening, especially as a result of Squeak programming environment. If you're looking to read about Smalltalk, the best place to start is with the classic book Smalltalk-80: The Language. This book on Squeak is pretty good as well. (Via . Lambda the Ultimate)
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