Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!uwvax!uwslh!lishka From: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Smalltalk for the Amiga Message-ID: <382@uwslh.UUCP> Date: 18 Sep 88 15:00:43 GMT References: <2767795856@9.scs.carleton.ca> Reply-To: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts) Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison, State Hygiene Lab Lines: 32 In article <2767795856@9.scs.carleton.ca> buck@scs.carleton.ca (David Buck) writes: > >Does anybody know of an implementation of Smalltalk for the Amiga computer? I've >seen Little Smalltalk (which doesn't have any graphics, window or mouse support). >I'd like to know if there are any other versions either in the public domain or >commercially available. I've not seen another SmallTalk for the Amiga besides Mr. Budd's Little Smalltalk. However, it is not too hard to add your own commands and primitives to the language. If you pick up a copy of Mr. Budd's book (A Little Smalltalk, published by Addison Wesley), the implementation of the language is explained in the second section. I have successfully added an input routine doing this, and once I got the hang of it, it was really easy. Mouse support, windows, and graphics should not be that hard, provided you have a well designed set of commands. The only drawback to this is that you need to know C. I would do more with the language, but as I am a student, an employed programmer, and in the middle of searching for a job, I am sort of strapped for time. And Little Smalltalk is somewhat slow, so I'd rather program in C for any real work. .oO Chris Oo. -- Christopher Lishka ...!{rutgers|ucbvax|...}!uwvax!uwslh!lishka Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene lishka%uwslh.uucp@cs.wisc.edu Immunology Section (608)262-1617 lishka@uwslh.uucp ---- "...Just because someone is shy and gets straight A's does not mean they won't put wads of gum in your arm pits." - Lynda Barry, "Ernie Pook's Commeek: Gum of Mystery"