Self
Downloads It is close in spirit and semantics to Smalltalk: Its syntax borrows heavily from Smalltalk. As in Smalltalk, variables are of unrestricted type. However, it differs from Smalltalk in several important respects.
[April 7, 2004, 8:00]
CryptoAid
Downloads I enjoy solving Crytograms, BUT I was tired of pencil, erasers, and erasure holes in my Sunday newspaper, so I wrote this program using Pocket Smalltalk! Smalltalk source and Resource files are also included.
[April 2, 2002, 8:00]
ScribblingWorks
Downloads This program, written in Smalltalk, is a notepad application. The users get a few functions to managing notes. It is possible to sort the notes by topics. The notes can marked with symbols. Links between notes can set by the user or create...
[August 10, 1999, 8:00]
A fair list, but don't ignore...
Talkback Smalltalk (1970s), OO, Apple and mainstream GUIs Intel 8086 & 8088 (1979) - price-performance CPUs The IBM PC (1981) - price-performance computing C (1972) & C++ (1979) First killer apps for PC VisiCalc -> Lotus 1-2-3 (early 80s)
[October 5, 2009, 9:42]
Squeak
Downloads Beneath its graphical user interface, it is powered by a descendant of the Smalltalk-80 language. Squeak is a personal multimedia environment aimed at end-users of all ages, developers, authors, and teachers.
[June 9, 2008, 8:00]
Ruby Comes to the .NET Platform: Find Out Why .NET Programmers May Want to Learn and Use Ruby, and Discover the Core Syntax of the Language
White Papers The Ruby programming language is a modern, object-oriented scripting language, with a syntax inspired by languages such as Perl and Smalltalk. Microsoft's IronRuby project brings a powerful and fun dynamic language to the Windows platform.
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
InformationSpace
Downloads InformationSpace runs inside of Squeak Smalltalk. InformationSpace is a causal set exploration tool. A causal set is basically a set of simple rules that define the relationship between bits in a space time.
[October 23, 2004, 8:00]
Does 10x faster development dumb down programming?
Blog Comment From the single-purpose MS Access, to Delphi, and more exotic options like Squeak Smalltalk, there are many helpful programming platforms that automate much of the setup and/or work. It looks like VB meets COBOL with a crufty and mandatory UI...
[November 27, 2009, 9:01]
Does 10x faster development dumb down programming?
Blog Comment The only tools that comes close to rev are RealBasic and various smalltalk environments. It seems from the comments from non-rev users that they don't believe that the rev users can be telling the truth.
[November 27, 2009, 15:45]
Cobra takes a bite at open source
News He has also acknowledged Visual Basic, D, Boo and Smalltalk for their contribution to his thought processes when establishing the existing code base. The Cobra programming language has been made available via open source, according to its author...
[March 5, 2008, 12:52]
HP loses tech visionary in R&D cull
News Kay has a long and distinguished record in the IT business and his best known for his work at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) in the 1970s, where he helped develop the graphical user interface that became the basis for the Mac, and for...
[July 22, 2005, 13:30]
Microsoft says farewell to Java
News Hejlsberg went on to list the wide variety of third-party languages, ranging from APL and Cobol to Pascal, Eiffel and SmallTalk, that various vendors are porting to support the Microsoft .Net framework.
[July 12, 2000, 11:48]
Microsoft buys Java tools firm Cooper & Peters
News Microsoft claims that the addition of a developer concentrating on object-oriented user-interface framework technologies for Java will accelerate the acceptance of Microsoft's Application Foundation Classes (AFC).
[June 13, 1997, 14:42]
Good memories
Talkback Smalltalk-80 vs Functional tosh like Haskell, SML, F# These brought back good memories. May I suggest a few more: AMD vs Intel Object-oriented (databases/languages/systems/etc) vs that other rubbish (a touch of bias creeping in there)
[September 4, 2009, 18:18]
The Year Ahead: Skills trends for 2003
News Small increases in demand have been tracked over the last two quarters in the following skills areas: Freehand, OLAP, Smalltalk, BPCS and EPOS for permanent positions, with JDBC, JSP EPOS, VPN, VBA and Switches had increased demand for contractors.
[December 27, 2002, 6:24]
Microsoft wastes no time wooing Java crowd
News With Thursday's announcement, Microsoft now supports about 20 languages in Microsoft.Net, including C++, Cobol, SmallTalk and Perl. On the heels of settling its Java lawsuit with Sun Microsystems, Microsoft on Thursday announced a new set of...
[January 26, 2001, 11:03]
