Meaning of Smalltalker | Babel Free

Definitions

One who uses the Smalltalk programming language.

Examples

“Questions and answers for novice Smalltalkers”

“Smalltalkers will thus gleefully make ad hominum^([sic]) attacks by noting the folly of large C++ projects (“Small is beautiful” is the appropriate rallying cry), but C++ers will often counter by pointing out the lack of disciplined development by some Smalltalkers.”

“Even though the conference seemed heavy on Smalltalk (including invited speeches by noted Smalltalkers David Thomas and Adele Goldberg) and, to a lesser degree, Eiffel (with Bertrand Meyer), C++ still managed to squeeze its way into the conference.”

“There is, however, a core of developers who have been producing fully OO applications for years: Smalltalkers.”

“Smalltalkers feel comfortable using Smalltalk's reflective capabilities to build and integrate new programming tools into the Smalltalk environment.”

“A humorous look at Java and its programmers. As Smalltalkers, we found it almost enough to make Java tolerable.”

“Smalltalkers of the World Unite! Although it’s now a long time since I did anything with it, I nominate Smalltalk—I still haven’t come across anything quite like it for being able to transfer thoughts into computer code.”

“Disagreement between Smalltalkers and C++ers gains added interest from the fact that both claim to be the direct heirs of another, older, language, SIMULA.”

“Adrian: […] Now, there are a few people who—Smalltalkers prior to that—who bring across this whole message-passing way of understanding what is actually syntactically fairly similar on the surface.”

“Lispers famously claim their language “has no syntax”, while Smalltalkers proudly show that you can fit the entire grammar on an index card.”

“Smalltalkers sometimes refer to an action “to answer,” which is analogous to the action “to return” found in other languages.”

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