Smalltalk Bibliography

OS/2 related

VisualAge Smalltalk

• David N. Smith: IBM Smalltalk: The Language - Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company 1995, ISBN 080530908X

VisualWorks/Objectworks

• Alec Sharp: Smalltalk by Example: The Developer's Guide – 1997, ISBN 0-07-913036-4

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

• 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 – 2015, ISBN 3658068221
• Chamond Liu: Smalltalk, Objects, and Design - 2000, ISBN 1583484906

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

• Timothy Budd: A Little Smalltalk - Addison-Wesley 1987, ISBN 0-201-10698-1

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 - Addison-Wesley 1989, ISBN 0-201-13688-0
• Adele Goldberg: Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment - Addison-Wesley 1983, ISBN 0-201-11372-4
• 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 - Addison-Wesley 1998, ISBN 0-201-18462-1
• Kent Beck: Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns - 1996, ISBN 013476904X

• Suzanne Skublics, Edward J. Klimas, David A. Thomas and John Pugh: Smalltalk With Style - 2002, ISBN 0131655493
• Patrick Henry Winston: On to Smalltalk - Addison-Wesley 1997, ISBN 0-201-49827-8
• Simon Lewis: The Art and Science of Smalltalk – 1995, ISBN 0133713458
• Didier H. Besset: Object-Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods: An Introduction with Java & Smalltalk - 2000, ISBN 1558606793
• Caleb Drake: Object-Oriented Programming with C++ and Smalltalk - 1997, ISBN 0131037978
• John R. Bourne: Object-Oriented Engineering: Building Engineering Systems Using Smalltalk-80 – 1992, ISBN 025611210X

Squeak

• Stephane Ducasse: Squeak: Learn Programming with Robots – 2006, ISBN 1590594916
• Gene Korienek, Tom Wrensch and Doug Dechow: Squeak: A Quick Trip to ObjectLand - Addison-Wesley 2001, ISBN 0-201-73114-2
• Mark J. Guzdial and Kimberly M. Rose: Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia - 2001, ISBN 0130280917
• Mark J. Guzdial: Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia Applications – Dec 2000
• Wilf Lalonde and John Pugh: Smalltalk V: Practice and Experience - 1994, ISBN 0138140391

In the early to mid-90s 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 - Addison-Wesley/Xerox 1983 - ISBN 0-201-11371-6

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 - 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 - pp 444-452 ACM 1986 ISBN 0-89791-204-7
• Andreas Gündel: Access Protection in a Distributed Smalltalk-System - Forschungsbericht Nr. 271, 30.09.1988
• John K. Bennett: The Design And Implementation of Distributed Smalltalk - PDF - 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 - pp 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, Sep 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, Sep 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 - The Register (2004-07-27)
• 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 - Xerox Palo Alto Research Center/Addison-Wesley 1983 - ISBN 0-201-11669-3

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 - 2008

Smalltalk-76

Instruction manuals

• Adele Goldberg et al: How To Use the Smalltalk-76 System - Xerox Learning Research Group 1979
• 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, Jan 1978.