5 Jul
2012
5 Jul
'12
6:05 p.m.
On 05/07/12 3:06 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:
Fred Cisin wrote:
Jecel,
Then you will be aware that Apple themselves made several releases of a
mature Smalltalk-80 system for Macintosh. The project was led, at one
time, by Harvey Alcabes. I still have his business card in that role,
I played with a pre-release Lisa (being used to
develp Berkeley
SmallTalk); I never touched on after that.
That is very interesting! I am rather familiar with the history of
Smalltalk and was not aware of any connection between Apple the
Berkeley. I had read that the Berkeley students had been given a copy of
the HP Smalltalk to study and then developed their own version for the
VAX and, later, for Sun workstations. from when I met him at the Apple Developer Conference
where HyperCard
(then codenamed Silver Surfer) was revealed.
--Toby
Note that the language name has a lower case "t". For most languages
this kind of thing can be debated, but while "Smalltalk size" is a valid
expression telling you the number of global variables defined (2151
where I am typing this), "SmallTalk size" will get you an "Unknown
variable" error.
-- Jecel