reference manual need

Bijan Parsia bparsia at email.unc.edu
Mon May 21 01:52:15 UTC 2001


On Sun, 20 May 2001, Andrew P. Black wrote:
[snip]

> 	"Inside SMalltalk" by Lalonde and Pugh.  Volume 1 (blue) is a 
> very comprehensive reference to the basic Smalltalk class library 
> (collections, streams, etc).  It refers to VisualWOrks, but most of 
> this stuff is the same in Squeak.   Volume 2 is a very comprehensive 
> reference to a version of the VisualWorks UI classes and was out of 
> date almost as soon as it hit the bookstores.  It's not much use for 
> Squeak.

Actually, I find it often of great use. Some bits are gold as is (e.g.,
the stuff on Processes). Others, while not much use as a reference *per
se*, are still cool for ideas and even (to-be-modified slightly) code.

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.





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