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This is true. However, the language, the core objects, and the virtual machine implementation are described in the Blue Book well enough for someone to implemen
by scroot 6y ago
This is true. However, the language, the core objects, and the virtual machine implementation are described in the Blue Book well enough for someone to implement all of it. Like Oberon it's a description of a complete computing system that fits in a single book
- jecel 6y agoAnother book from back then was "A Little Smalltalk" by Tim Budd. http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~budd/Books/little/ http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~budd/Books/little/ http://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/LittleSmalltalk/ALittleSmalltalk.pdf http://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/LittleSmalltalk/A... It was a bit different than the Blue Book, though version 3 was a lot closer to Smalltalk-76 and version 4 to Smalltalk-80. The number of classes and methods remained very small and the C code for the virtual machine is still simple and easy to understand. Several projects forked Little Smalltalk