Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice
by Glen Krasner (ed.)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley 1983
ISBN/ASIN: 0201116693
ISBN-13: 9780201116694
Number of pages: 354
Description:
This book first describes the incredibly exciting history of how Smalltalk was built from scratch. It then goes on to show the way in which Smalltalk was made public. These papers are an invaluable source of information for any Smalltalker. They range from overall design issues down to statistics on the work of the VM and image contents.
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