This is a wonderfull little book that not only introduces the reader to object-oriented programming, but also describes the implementaion of a SmallTalk-like language. Budd’s introduction to Smalltalk programming and the Little Smalltalk interpreter focuses on elementary, rather than advanced topics of object-oriented programming.
Book Description
The Little Smalltalk system runs under the UNIX operating system and can be executed on conventional terminals.Little Smalltalk is a non-standard dialect of the Smalltalk programming language invented by Timothy Budd. It was originally described in the book: “A Little Smalltalk”, Timothy Budd, Addison-Wesley, 1987, ISBN 0-201-10698-1.
The Little Smalltalk system was the first Smalltalk interpreter produced outside of Xerox PARC. Although it lacked many of the features of the original Smalltalk-80 system, it helped popularize the ideas of object-oriented programming, virtual machines, and bytecode interpreters. Timothy Budd later rewrote Little Smalltalk in Java, and distributes it as the SmallWorld system.
The original releases are under a variety of licenses. They are now maintained by Danny Reinhold via the Little Smalltalk project. Recently work on a new major version has begun. This differs from earlier releases by providing support for graphical applications, a foreign function interface, and numerous integrated tools.
Table of Contents
- Basics
- Syntax
- Basic Classes
- Class Definition
- A Simple Application
- Primitives, Cascades, and Coercions
- A Simulation
- Generators
- Graphics
- Processes
- Implementation Overview
- The Representation of Objects
- Bytecodes
- The Process Manager
- The Interpreter
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Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Format(s): PDF
File size: 9.88 MB
Number of pages: 295
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