Smalltalk-80. The Language

The Smalltalk-80 system is an integrated, graphical, and interactive programming environment with capabilities for producing highly functional contact with personal computer systems. This book introduces the Smalltalk-80 approach to information representation and manipulation; it also provides an overview of the syntax of the language. This book is intended for programmers or programming language designers interested in the Smalltalk-80 language and its development environment on a particular kind of hardware system. It assumes that the reader is familiar with at least one programming language and with sequencing of instruction in a computer.