On Sunday 20 May 2001 09:00, Rosemary Michelle Simpson wrote:

> One of the things that made using the Lisp Machine environment so
> powerful was the combination of the comprehensive Lisp Machine
> Manual (or Orangual so-called because of the color of its cover)
> with the powerful online tools.  Squeak has the online tools but not
> the reference manual.  This means you are constrained to one kind
> of, very narrow, view and can never get the comprehensive view
> you get from a paper manual such as the Orangual.  Does anyone but
> me care?

Andrew mentioned the Blue Book but didn't explain it. He's referring to 
Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation By Adele 
Goldberg and David Robson,
copyright 1983, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-11371-6

This was reprinted without some appendices as the "Purple book", which is 
still in print:
Smalltalk 80 : The Language by Adele Goldberg, David Robson; June 1989; 
Addison-Wesley Pub Co; ISBN: 0201136880

The missing appendices can be found at:
http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/bluebook/bluebook_imp_toc.html

These books describe Smalltalk-80, from which Squeak is derived. There are 
still many similarities. For a view of the language itself, the book should 
be helpful.

Mark Guzdial's two new books discuss the Squeak environment itself.
Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia Applications ISBN: 0130280283
is out, and describes Squeak as a platform for doing interesting things with 
graphics, music, etc.

Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia ISBN: 0130280917 is supposed 
to hit the shelves on June 15.
 
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Ned Konz
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