[Q, OT] Book for Smalltalk, like SICP for Scheme/Lisp

David Mitchell david.mitchell at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 13:48:24 UTC 2007


The Blue Book (Smalltalk - 80, The Language and its Implementation) is
probably closest.

On 8/15/07, "S.J.Chun" <chunsj at embian.com> wrote:
>  I already read the book you mentioned. But I do want more profound one,
> which should cover the areas which is civered in SICP; from basic programming
> elements to the machine/system(virtual one) construction, which is the reason
> I think SICP is the one of the best book for educating programmer(like TAOCP).
>
> Thank you.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>    From: Michael Haupt <mhaupt at gmail.com>
>    To: "\"S.J.Chun\"" <chunsj at embian.com>, The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>    Sent: 07-08-15 18:24:45
>    Subject: Re: Re: [Q, OT] Book for Smalltalk, like SICP for Scheme/Lisp
>
>   Hi,
>
> On 8/15/07, "S.J.Chun" <chunsj at embian.com> wrote:
> > During my reading of SICP :-), I thought that it would be
> > great if there is some equivalent book for Smalltalk. So, I
> > post my question here.
>
> there is a book by Gene Korienek et al., entitled "Squeak: A Quick
> Trip to Object Land" (ISBN 0201731142). It is written in dialogue
> style (a bit like the "The Little Schemer" book by Friedman/Felleisen)
> and actually is an introduction to OOP, where Squeak is used as the
> language/environment of choice. Given that the book was published in
> 2002, the version of Squeak used therein is not very recent (3.0, I
> think).
>
> There are others, of course, but this one seems to be close to SICP
> when it comes to comparing the approaches. It does not go as far as
> SICP, though, in terms of the complexity of the examples.
>
> Best,
>
> Michael
>
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