Is Smalltalk an operating system?

Smalltalk is more than just a language. It’s an operating system or execution platform. It shares much in common with a virtualized operating system running under VMware or VirtualBox.

What is the Eiffel Tower made out of?

iron
The Eiffel Tower is made of iron, not steel. The puddle iron that makes up the Eiffel Tower’s structure came from the Pompey forges (East of France). The iron plates and beams produced through the puddling process were then preassembled in the Eiffel factories in Levallois Perret using rivets.

What programming languages came after Smalltalk?

Languages that came after Smalltalk (like C++ and Java) have been mere imitations, dwarfed by the shadow of the past and crippled by their compromises. These newer languages have introduced few new concepts and in many ways have failed to realize the OOP ideals as well as Smalltalk.

How did Smalltalk influence the development of OOP?

The Virtual Machine was promptly ported to a number of different computers, the Smalltalk system booted to life on a number of platforms, and the OOP revolution began as researchers began to study Smalltalk. One major influence of the Smalltalk-80 project was on a young man named Steve Jobs. He came for a tour at PARC and saw a demo of Smalltalk.

Is Squeak a version of Smalltalk?

However, we should make clear that the language in Squeak is exactly the Smalltalk-80 language. All of the original Smalltalk-80 software is included in the Squeak system, although Squeak has added substantially to the growing body of code. So what are the basic concepts of Smalltalk?

What are the basic ideas of Smalltalk?

Not only did Smalltalk introduce the basic ideas of “object”, “class”, “message”, “method”, and “inheritance”, it ran with them. Languages that came after Smalltalk (like C++ and Java) have been mere imitations, dwarfed by the shadow of the past and crippled by their compromises.