First reference of Smalltalk in usenet

Helge Horch Helge.Horch at munich.netsurf.de
Sat Dec 15 02:57:30 UTC 2001


At 00:10 14.12.2001 -0600, Les Tyrell wrote:
>it mentions version 0.4 of Apple's Smalltalk... gee, I wonder whatever 
>became of that one?
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=comp.lang.smalltalk&as_drrb=b&a 
>s_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=14&as_maxm=12&as_maxy=1988&selm=80 
>71%40pasteur.Berkeley.EDU

Judging from

| erg ts mref |
erg _ SortedCollection new.
Smalltalk allBehaviorsDo: [:b |
     b methodsDo: [:cm |
         ts _ Utilities timeStampForMethod: cm.
         (ts includes: $/)
             ifFalse:
                 [mref _ MethodReference new
                     setClass: b
                     methodSymbol: cm who last
                     stringVersion: nil.
                 erg add: mref]]].
MessageSet
         openMessageList: erg
         name: 'yow!'

some bits of it are still going strong. ;-)

IIRC, I saw it last in Apple's Developer Catalogs around '91 or so, but we 
went for Digitalk's (i.e. OTI's) V/Mac at that time.

Cheers,
Helge




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