Smalltalker

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noun

One who uses the Smalltalk programming language.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounSmalltalker (plural Smalltalkers)

plural Smalltalkers

  1. One who uses the Smalltalk programming language.

    Questions and answers for novice Smalltalkers

    1989, Byte, volume 14, page 273
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    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.

    1993, Object Magazine, volume 3, COOT, Incorporated, page 28

    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.

    1995, Dr. Dobb’s Developer Update, volume 2

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

    1998, Michael Knapik, Jay Johnson, Developing Intelligent Agents for Distributed Systems: Exploring Architecture, Technologies, and Applications, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 314

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

    1998, Sherman R. Alpert, Kyle Brown, Bobby Woolf, The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 8

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

    2001, Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, Chet Hendrickson, Extreme Programming Installed (The XP Series), Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 250

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