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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
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In article <2767795856@9.scs.carleton.ca> buck@scs.carleton.ca (David Buck) writes:
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>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.
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Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene                   lishka%uwslh.uucp@cs.wisc.edu
Immunology Section  (608)262-1617                            lishka@uwslh.uucp
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