Yes, Smalltalk is so important you should study it. Why? You can understand object-oriented programming in pure, simple form. What people forget is that the Smalltalk-80 "Blue Book" has only about 90 pages devoted to the language—the language is just that simple. The other 300 pages talk about the predefined class hierarchy, which is a masterpiece of design for a class-based, object-oriented ...
Let me answer your question by (1) explaining a hello world example in Smalltalk and (2) addressing how to work with images. Hello World in Smalltalk Usually, Smalltalk systems come with their own user interface, typically a graphical environment such as Morphic in Squeak or Pharo.
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Ruby is becoming popular, largely from the influence Ruby on Rails, but it feels like it is currently struggling through its adolescence. There are a lot of similarities between Ruby and Smalltalk --
What do you think is a good IDE for learning SmallTalk? I'll only be using it as a hobby, so it has to be free.
There's no accepted definition of functional programming language. If you define functional language as the language that supports first class functions, then yes, Smalltalk is a functional language. If you also consider the factors like support for immutability, algebraic data types, pattern matching, partial application etc then no, Smalltalk is not a functional language.
I'm currently learning Smalltalk, and I've encountered a behavior that I find puzzling regarding method invocation with multiple colons. I understand that colons play a crucial role in specifying m...