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littlesmalltalk

Archive of Little Smalltalk (with updates to work on modern platforms). Also collects forks and documentation on this historic system.

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149GitHub stars
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What it is

Archive of Little Smalltalk (with updates to work on modern platforms). Also collects forks and documentation on this historic system.

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What people are saying

Great book for learning OOP and how to implement a bytecode compiler and interpreter for a small language. One of my favorite books. A few years later Budd worked on a…

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Observed mentions: 2022-10-12 18:29:12 UTC to 2022-10-12 18:36:23 UTC.

0122022-10-12 18:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-12 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsOct 12, 18:00

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i_don_t_know·Oct 12, 2022Recommendation phrase
Great book for learning OOP and how to implement a bytecode compiler and interpreter for a small language. One of my favorite books. A few years later Budd worked on a successor where the compiler and much of the system was written in Smalltalk and image-based. Only the VM was in C: stop and copy garbage collection, bytecode interpreter and primitives. Small and straightforward. A wonderful system for learning how to implement languages. Sources to several versions: https://github.com/crcx/littlesmalltalk
In A Little Smalltalk (1987)

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