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Squeak is an implementation of the Smalltalk programming
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environment; it includes among other things:
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* a rapid-turn-around Smalltalk-80 compiler,
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* a caching-JIT run-time virtual machine (with full source in
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Smalltalk),
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* large class libraries with portable data and GUI models, and
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* an integrated development environment with coding tools, GUI
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construction.
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1999-03-05 16:24:52 +00:00
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Squeak was developed at Apple Labs and Walt Disney and has been ported
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to a variety of computers (including most flavors of UNIX and
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Windows). Compared to other Smalltalk systems, Squeak has 4 important
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features:
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* Portability (to Mac, Windows, WinCE, and many flavors of UNIX);
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* Speed (it uses native C for compute-intensive code);
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* Price (free, including all source code and the right to distribute
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applications!); and
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* Sophistication (full Smalltalk-80 language, libraries, and tools).
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WWW: http://www.squeak.org/
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