Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation

by Adele Goldberg, David Robson, Michael A. Harrison (Editor)

TABLE OF (1) Objects and Messages (2) Expression Syntax (3) Classes and Instances (4) Subclasses (5) Metaclasses (6) Protocol for all Objects (7) Linear Measures (8) Numerical Classes (9) Protocol for All Collection Classes (10) Hierarchy of the Collection Classes (11) Three Examples that Use Collections (12) Protocol for Streams (13) Implementation of the Basic Collection Protocol (14) Kernel Support (15) Multiple Independent Processes (16) Protocol Classes (17) The Programming Interface (18) Graphics Kernel (19) Pens (20) Display Objects (21) Probability Distributions (22) Event-Driven Simulations (23) Statistics Gathering in Event-Driven Simulations (24) The Use of Resources in Event-Driven Simulations (25) Coordinated Resources for Event-Driven Simulations (26) The Implementation (27) Specification of the Virtual Machine (28) Formal Specification of the Interpreter (29) Formal Specification of the Primitive Methods (30) Formal Specification of the Object Memory.

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Technology, Technical, Software, Computers, Science

714 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1983

About the author

Adele Goldberg is an American computer scientist. She was one of the co-developers of the programming language Smalltalk-80 and of various concepts related to object-oriented programming while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), in the 1970s.

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