I found this book, now updated for Squeak, to be very helpful in explicating the object paradigm of smalltalk.<br><br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Squeak-Quick-ObjectLand-Gene-Korienek/dp/0201731142/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207621370&sr=8-2">http://www.amazon.com/Squeak-Quick-ObjectLand-Gene-Korienek/dp/0201731142/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207621370&sr=8-2</a><br>
<br>It might seem a wee bit juvenile ,but it was still pretty enlightening. Everyone says that smalltalk (aka Squeak) is all about<br>objects sending messages to objects - for me , I find that a helpful notion. <br>-Russ<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:20 PM, David T. Lewis <<a href="mailto:lewis@mail.msen.com">lewis@mail.msen.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 03:00:25PM -0600, Nathan Lane wrote:<br>
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> Can anybody answer me this? This Squeak run on top of a SmallTalk runtime<br>
> environment? Or is is the SmallTalk runtime environment?<br>
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</div>Yes, and yes.<br>
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The classic "Back to the Future" paper will give some perspective:<br>
<a href="http://users.ipa.net/%7Edwighth/squeak/oopsla_squeak.html" target="_blank">http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/squeak/oopsla_squeak.html</a><br>
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Dave<br>
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