5 Jul
2012
5 Jul
'12
12:06 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
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.
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