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What's the difference between "Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation" and "Smalltalk-80: The Language"? The latter is more recent (1989 vs 1983) an

by ardy42 8y ago

What's the difference between "Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation" and "Smalltalk-80: The Language"? The latter is more recent (1989 vs 1983) and seems to be a "second edition," but it's shorter (608 vs 714 pages). Did they drop a chapter or something?

boztek 8y ago
It’s missing the VM implementation description at the end.
- scroot 8y ago
  Specifically, the portion called "The Implementation" is a description of the VM written in Smalltalk itself. This is an attempt to be as complete as McCarthy's Lisp language description and implementation in Lisp.