Alan,

Why was the Smalltalk-72 form abandoned/changed to create Smalltalk-80?

I just looked over the manual and it was fascinating. It looks like a
hybrid between scheme and half-a-dozen scripting languages that showed
up between the late-80's and early-90's.

Smalltalk-72 might well have been a very popular scripting language for
the internet 90's era.

-- Dave S. [SmallScript Corp]

SmallScript for the AOS & .NET Platforms
David.Simmons at SmallScript.com | http://www.smallscript.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
> admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Bijan Parsia
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 10:17 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: re: threads
> 
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Helge Horch wrote:
> 
> > At 23:57 15.02.2002 -0500, Bijan Parsia wrote:
> > >That being said, I don't quite get all of the Smalltalk-72 model,
> though
> > >I'm diligently (for me) perusing the manual :)
> >
> > Ah!, you mean the one at
> > <http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/xerox/alto/Smalltalk72_Manual.pdf>?
> 
> Yes indeed, thanks to whomever put that up. I guess I should pop the
link
> into the swiki.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bijan Parsia.
>