The art and science of smalltalk
by Simon Lewis · first published 1995
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I'd recommend "The Art and Science of Smalltalk" by Simon Lewis. Because it's so old, Smalltalk does things very differently to other development environments. The GUI is strange by today's standards (Smalltalk was why Xerox developed the GUI - you…
on “Tell, don't ask” ↗Philosophy-wise, "The Art and Science of Smalltalk" by Simon Lewis is very good.
on “The Smalltalk Zoo” ↗…helped gain better intuitions when using Linux. [2] 4. Starting Forth [3] because Forth is worth learning. It's worth learning because it changed the way I think about programming languages. 5. The Art and Science of Smalltalk [4] for the same reasons as Forth, only more so. After reading about Smalltalk, I felt I began to understand the "Why" of Ruby. Ruby became many times richer with the context. 6. The weird one is The…
on “Ask HN: What are the best books that changed your life in 2015?” ↗…Goldberg herself, and the last few chapters (26-30) contain the blueprint for a basic, canonical VM using Smalltalk itself as the implementation language (referred to as the "blue book VM"). I think The Art and Science of Smalltalk is quite good also, but outdated and VisualWorks-specific. The section on MVC is particularly interesting, especially if your understanding of it was shaped by RoR and other web frameworks.
on “Computer Programming Using GNU Smalltalk (2009)” ↗