Smalltalk Bibliography

OS/2 related

VisualAge Smalltalk

Books

• David N. Smith: IBM Smalltalk: The Language - Paperback - 1995 - Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company - ISBN 978-0805309089 - ISBN 080530908X - In print.

VisualWorks/Objectworks

• Alec Sharp: Smalltalk by Example: The Developer's Guide Paperback – 1997 - ISBN 0079130364 - ISBN 978-0079130365 - Out of print.

Although usable as a generic SmallTalk tutorial, this book is made for the VisualWorks systems and almost bang right on the last release that worked on OS/2. OOP but easily available.

Smalltalk/V

Smalltalk/V related articles and presentations

• Greg Hendley and Eric Smith: Giving application windows dialog box functionality in Smalltalk/V PM - Published in Smalltalk Report, part one appeared on page nine in Vol 1, Issue 1, September 1991 while part two appeared on page 16 in Vol 1, Issue 2, October 1991.

Generic Smalltalk

Tutorials and introductory materials

Books

• Johannes Brauer: Programming Smalltalk / Object-Orientation from the Beginning: An introduction to the principles of programming - Paperback – 2015 - ISBN-10: 3658068221 - ISBN-13: 978-3658068226 - In print.
• Chamond Liu: Smalltalk, Objects, and Design - Paperback – 2000 - ISBN-10: 1583484906 - ISBN-13: 978-1583484906 - In print.

By some considered the best SmallTalk introduction and tutorial currently in print.

• Timothy Budd: A Little Smalltalk - Paperback – 1987 - ISBN-10: 0201106981 - ISBN-13: 978-0201106985 - Out of print.

Something of a mini-classic, introduces the reader to the language and object-oriented programming in general, but also describes a SmallTalk implementation and originally came with a DOS SmallTalk interpreter based on the code in the book. For updated versions of the book and code that can bee freely downloaded from the net see the Little Smalltalk page.

• Adele Goldberg and David Robson: Smalltalk 80: The Language - Paperback – 1989 - ISBN-10: 0201136880 - ISBN-13: 978-0201136883 - In print.
• Adele Goldberg: Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment - Hardcover – 1983 - ISBN-10: 0201113724 - ISBN-13: 978-0201113723 - Out of print.
• Squeak by Example - Third edition - 2010 - Available as a downloadable PDF format file or as a softcover book, in French and Korean in addition to English. Written by Andrew P. Black, Stéphane Ducasse, Oscar Nierstrasz, Damien Pollet, Damien Cassou and Marcus Denker.

Source code from the book can be downloaded from here.

Articles, presentations and other learning material

• Harry Porter: Smalltalk: A White Paper Overview - An introduction and tutorial suitable for those with some experience with squiggly brace languages such as C or Java.
• Wilf LaLonde: I Can Read C++ and Java But I Can’t Read Smalltalk - Like the above tutorial it pretty much requires you to known a CPL branch language before you start.

Design patterns/O-O

• Sherman Alpert, Kyle Brown and Bobby Woolf: The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion - Paperback – 1998 - ISBN-10: 0201184621 - ISBN-13: 978-0201184624 - In print.
• Kent Beck: Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns - Paperback – 1996 - ISBN-10: 013476904X - ISBN-13: 978-0134769042 - In print

• Suzanne Skublics, Edward J. Klimas, David A. Thomas and John Pugh: Smalltalk With Style - Paperback – 2002 - ISBN-10: 0131655493 - ISBN-13: 978-0131655492 - Out of print.
• Patrick Henry Winston: On to Smalltalk - Paperback – 1997 - ISBN-10: 0201498278 - ISBN-13: 978-0201498271 - Out of print.
• Simon Lewis: The Art and Science of Smalltalk - "Textbook" binding – 1995 - ISBN-10: 0133713458 - ISBN-13: 978-0133713459 - Out of print.
• Didier H. Besset: Object-Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods: An Introduction with Java & Smalltalk - Hardcover – 2000 - ISBN-10: 1558606793 - ISBN-13: 978-1558606791 - Out of print.
• Caleb Drake: Object-Oriented Programming with C++ and Smalltalk - Paperback – 1997 - ISBN-10: 0131037978 - ISBN-13: 978-0131037977 - Out of print.
• John R. Bourne: Object-Oriented Engineering: Building Engineering Systems Using Smalltalk-80 - Hardcover – 1992 - ISBN-10: 025611210X - ISBN-13: 978-0256112108 - In print.
• Stephane Ducasse: Squeak: Learn Programming with Robots - Paperback – 2006 - ISBN-10: 1590594916 - ISBN-13: 978-1590594919 - In Print.
• Gene Korienek, Tom Wrensch and Doug Dechow: Squeak: A Quick Trip to ObjectLand - Paperback – 2001 - ISBN-10: 0201731142 - ISBN-13: 978-0201731149 - In Print.
• Mark J. Guzdial and Kimberly M. Rose: Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia - Paperback – 2001 - ISBN-10: 0130280917 - ISBN-13: 978-0130280916 - In print.
• Mark J. Guzdial: Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia Applications Paperback – December 30, 2000 - Out of print
• Wilf Lalonde and John Pugh: Smalltalk V: Practice and Experience - Paperback + floppy disk - 1994 - ISBN10: 0138140391 - ISBN13: 978-0138140397 - Out of print

In the early to mid-90's there was also a regular magazine published called Smalltalk Report.

Usage, real world examples, tips and personal experiences

• Brian Foote: Designing to facilitate change with object-oriented frameworks - Master thesis presented at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1977.

Source code for the battery simulator is available here, it is done with Squeak 1.3 and works on the Cheese version as well.

Related articles

• Why Is Smalltalk Dead?
• Java versus Smalltalk
• Juanita Ewing: Should classes have owners? - Published in Smalltalk Report Vol 1, Issue 1, September 1991 - Page 7.
• Romain Robbes, Noury Bouraqadi and Serge Stinckwich: An Aspect-based Multi-Agent System - Published by Institut für Informatik und Angewandte Mathematik, University of Bern as part of ESUG 2004 Research Track page 68.

Engine and implementation

Books

• Adele Goldberg and David Robson: Smalltalk 80: The language and its implementation - May 1983 - Addison-Wesley/Xerox - Hardcover, 714 pages - ISBN 0201113716 - ISBN 978-0201113716

This book pretty much defines the Smalltalk-80 standard and is referred to in the Smalltalk world as The Blue Book.

Articles, papers & presentations

• Glenn Krasner: The Smalltalk-80 Virtual Machine - Originally published in BYTE Magazine August 1981, page 300.
• William R. Bush, A. Dain Samples, David Ungar and Paul N. Hilfinger: Compiling Smalltalk-80 to a RISC - Originally published in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS II) - October 1987 - Pages 112-116.
• Heinrich Moser: Smalltalk: Overview and Implementation Issues - October 2002 – January 2003
• L. Peter Deutsch and Allan M. Schiffman: Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80 System - Originally published in the 1984 ACM Principles of Programming Languages

Distributed Smalltalk

• Marcel Schelvis and Eddy Bledoeg: The Implementation of Distributed Smalltalk - Originally published in 1988.
• Dominique Decouchant: Design of a distributed object manager for the Smalltalk-80 system - Originally published in OOPLSA '86 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications - Pages 444-452 ACM 1986 ISBN 0-89791-204-7
• Andreas Gündel: Access Protection in a Distributed Smalltalk-System - Originally published in Forschungsbericht Nr. 271, 30.9.1988.
• John K. Bennett: The Design And Implementation of Distributed Smalltalk - PDF via the Internet Archive - Originally published in: Norman K. Meyrowitz (Ed): Proceedings of the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA'87), Orlando, Florida, USA, October 4-8, 1987 - ISBN 0-89791-247-0 - Pages 318-330

See also: #Embedded

Research topics

• Lodewijk Bergmans, Bedir Tekinerdogan & Mehmet Akşit: Modular and Composable Extensions to Smalltalk using Composition Filters - In PDF format
• Ralph Johnson: The Typed Smalltalk project at the University of Illinois - Published in Smalltalk Report Vol 1, Issue 1, September 1991 - Page 16.
• J. Graver, L. Zurawski and Ralph Johnson: TS: An Optimizing Compiler for Smalltalk - Published in the Proceedings of the ACM OOPSLA '88 conference, September 1988, pp. 18-26.
• Kim Mens and Tom Tourwé: Delving Source-code with Formal Concept Analysis - Published by Institut für Informatik und Angewandte Mathematik, University of Bern as part of ESUG 2004 Research Track page 7.
• Michele Marchesi, Sandro Pinna, Nicola Serra and Stefano Tuveri: Power Laws in Smalltalk - Published by Institut für Informatik und Angewandte Mathematik, University of Bern as part of ESUG 2004 Research Track page 30.
• Brian Foote and Ralph E. Johnson: Reflective Facilities in Smalltalk-80 - Originally presented at the OOPSLA '89, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 1-6 October, 1989.

Embedded

OOVM

• Jakob R. Andersen, Lars Bak, Steffen Grarup, Kasper V. Lund, Toke Eskildsen, Klaus Marius Hansen and Mads Torgersen: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of the Resilient Smalltalk Embedded Platform - Published by Institut für Informatik und Angewandte Mathematik, University of Bern as part of ESUG 2004 Research Track page 90.

This was actually used as a part of a RT OS that was used in feature phones under the name OOVM and later OSVM, ran Java and Javascript as well as Smalltalk.

• Kasper Verdich Lund and Jakob R. Andersen: Revolutionizing Embedded Software - 2003 - Århus University

Lund and Andersen's master thesis that discusses an advanced Smalltalk engine designed with embedded work in mind.

• Andrew Orlowski: Forgotten language enables nonstop gadgets: Smalltalk, in a very small machine - Originally published by The Register on July 27, 2004.
• Lars Bak: Building Robust Embedded Software - 2004 - Presentation - A slightly updated version is available as A new approach to developing robust embedded software - both PDF files.

Robotics

• Michaël Piel and Samir Saidani: DynaGraph : a Smalltalk Environment for Self-Reconfigurable Robots Simulation - Published by Institut für Informatik und Angewandte Mathematik, University of Bern as part of ESUG 2004 Research Track page 48.

Historical material

This is basically anything either pre Smalltalk-80 or specifically related to the history of the language.

Books

• Glenn Krasner (editor): Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice - August 1983 - Xerox Palo Alto Research Center/Addison-Wesley - Paperback, 342 pages - ISBN 0201116693 - ISBN 978-0201116694 - Out of print.

Smalltalk history articles and presentations

• Alan C. Kay: The Early History Of Smalltalk - Originally published in ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 28, No 3, March 1993.
• Matt Savona: Smalltalk’s Influence on Modern Programming - February 1st, 2008

Smalltalk-76

Instruction manuals

• Adele Goldberg et al: How To Use the Smalltalk-76 System - October 1979 - Xerox Learning Research Group
• Larry Tesler: Smalltalk Kernel Language Manual - Xerox 1977

Smalltalk-76 related articles and presentations

• Daniel H. H. Ingalls: The Smalltalk-76 Programming System Design and Implementation - First published in the Proceedings of the Fifth Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, Tucson, Arizona, January 23-25, 1978.