Blog categorized as Smalltalk

Smalltalk programmers have, for a long time, looked at their Smalltalk image with mixed feelings. They were happy to immerse themselves in the world of objects and learned to live in it like a dolphin in the ocean (which, as you know, was originally a land animal, turning to the sea), and make grate...

Attributes of Smalltalk

As many in the Smalltalk community know, Smalltalk was originally designed to be a multi-headed beast for the Xerox Alto and other personal computers incubated at the Learning Research Group at Xerox:

• operating system
• development environment
• applications

But, of course since it al...

Object Arts | Future development of Dolphin discontinued.

(via http://www.object-arts.com)

This shocking announcement by Andy Bower, one of the founders of Dolphin Smalltalk, made me realise a grave mistake: I have taken the Open Source movement too much for granted.

It is a bit the same as with my opi...