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Happy New Year!
Two important articles were published. First, “MMXXII — Year-long Celebrations for Smalltalk”: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/mmxxii-year-long-celebrations-for-smalltalk-bed82541b7db Second, “The Rejuvenation of Squeak”: https://richardeng.medium.com/the-rejuvenation-of-squeak-934fd141ba62
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Another 50th Anniversary Celebration
The Computer History Museum held a special webinar entitled “Making Smalltalk”:
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JRMPC 2022 Awards Ceremony
In case you missed it…
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Adele Goldberg on the Legacy of Smalltalk
For Smalltalk’s 50th anniversary this year, IEEE Spectrum spoke with Adele Goldberg: https://spectrum.ieee.org/qa-adele-goldberg-on-the-legacy-of-smalltalk. Good insights.
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September is the actual birth month of Smalltalk
Therefore, I’ve prepared something special: Enjoy!
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How is Smalltalk like Linux?
Smalltalk programming language and Linux operating system share a common philosophy: provide the user with maximum flexibility, maximum available options. If you’re using Windows or MacOS, or Python, JavaScript, Java, or C#, you only have one option. There are no other flavours. Smalltalk and Linux provide many different offerings, for example, VisualWorks, VAST, GemStone/S, Pharo,…
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Celebrating 50 Years of Smalltalk
A wrap-up of Camp Smalltalk Supreme.
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Uncle Bob’s new fetish
Robert C. Martin (“Uncle Bob”) has a new fetish: Clojure. From this article, I quote something that I feel is necessary to clarify: Smalltalk was small and elegant and beautiful. It spawned the Design Patterns revolution. It spawned the Refactoring revolution. It spawned the TDD revolution. It helped to spawn the Agile revolution. Smalltalk was…
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What Killed Smalltalk
Mark Twain once quipped in 1897 that, “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” For many years, Smalltalk has been written off as a dead language. One of the most controversial examples of this was a talk given by Robert C. Martin (“Uncle Bob”) at RailsConf 2009. With this year’s celebration of the 50th…
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Camp Smalltalk Supreme videos have now been published
Smalltalk Renaissance — 50 Years of Smalltalk – YouTube Check out the playlists, too. Enjoy.