[squeak-dev] Re: Vote for the best Smalltalk book of the last 5 years...

Jecel Assumpcao Jr. jecel at merlintec.com
Tue Sep 7 18:39:47 UTC 2010


Bert Freudenberg wrote on Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:50:22 +0200
> I for one am happy that there were enough books written about Smalltalk
> that we can have a competition.
> 
> Thank you for organizing the contest, ESUG. 

I would also like to thank both ESUG for holding the contest and the
authors for their very valuable contribution to the community. While
Andreas does have a point about conflict of interest, it is unavoidable
due to the small size of our community (we had quite a bit of conflict
over this on squeak-dev last year, for example). It is like the small
town where the same guy is the sheriff, the auto repairman, the judge,
the fireman and so on.

About the list itself, I did a quick search on Amazon for "smalltalk"
and found these others:

Discovering Smalltalk (The Benjamin/Cummings Series in Object-Oriented
Software Engineering)
by Wilf Lalonde
(Paperback - Jan 17, 2008) - it seems to use Digitalk Smalltalk V, so
this is probably a new edition of an old book

Advances in Smalltalk: 14th International Smaltalk Conference, ISC 2006,
Prague, Czech Republic, September 4-8, 2006, Revised Selected Papers
(Lecture ... / Programming and Software Engineering)
by Wolfgang De Meuter
(Paperback - May 18, 2007)

Grundkurs Smalltalk - Objektorientierung von Anfang an
by Johannes Brauer
(Perfect Paperback - 2008) - in German

Einsamkeit überwinden mit der TALISUND Strategie. Neue Menschen kennen
lernen - ohne Smalltalk.
by einsamkeit-ueberwinden.org
(Paperback - Mar 30, 2010) - in German

The SICS Java Port Project: Automatic Translation of a Large Object
Oriented System from Smalltalk to Java
by Skarsaune Martin
(Paperback - Sep 15, 2008) - I would expect zero votes for this one :-)

Self-Sustaining Systems: First Workshop, S3 2008 Potsdam, Germany, May
15-16, 2008, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science /
Programming and Software Engineering)
by Robert Hirschfeld and Kim Rose
(Paperback - Nov 21, 2008)

Smalltalk Programming Language Family: Smalltalk, Squeak, Seaside, Ibm
Visualage, Scratch, Gnu Smalltalk, Visual Smalltalk Enterprise, Aida|web
by Books LLC
(Paperback - May 6, 2010)

Dialecte Smalltalk: Squeak, Pharo, Gnu Smalltalk, Scratch, Bistro,
Visualworks
by Livres Groupe
(Paperback - Aug 1, 2010) - in French

Class-Based Programming Languages: Java, C++, Python, Eiffel, Smalltalk,
Ruby, Simula, Common Lisp, Oberon, Clu, Objective-C, Squeak, Sather
by Books LLC
(Paperback - May 24, 2010)

Dynamically-Typed Programming Languages: Lisp, Perl, Python, Mumps,
Smalltalk, Ruby, Logo, Tcl, Self, Common Lisp, Objective-C, Rebol,
Squeak
by Books LLC
(Paperback - May 26, 2010)

Objektorientierte Programmiersprache: Php, Smalltalk-80, Embarcadero
Delphi, Oberon, Eiffel, Cluster, Haxe, Common Lisp, Pow!, Scratch, Lpc
by Bücher Gruppe
(Paperback - Jul 22, 2010) - in German

Langage Orienté Objet: Java, C++, Ada, Javascript, Ruby, Python,
Codegear Delphi, Smalltalk, Kylix, Objective-C, Eiffel, Perl 6, Visual T
Sharp
by Livres Groupe
(Paperback - Jul 29, 2010) - in French

Object-Oriented Programming Languages: Cobol, Java, C++, Perl, Fortran,
Python, Php, Eiffel, Smalltalk, Ruby, Blitz Basic, Turbo Pascal
by Books LLC
(Paperback - May 21, 2010)

Ruby (Programming Language): Reflection (computer science), Dynamic
programming language, Object-oriented programming language, Perl,
Smalltalk, Yukihiro ... language), Ada (programming language)
by Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, and John McBrewster
(Paperback - Oct 12, 2009)

I would say that the list is very reasonable without any of the above
books. Since I haven't read any of these nor the ones in the survey, I
won't be able to participate. But I find it great that people are still
taking the time to write new books.

-- Jecel




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