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Programming Smalltalk – Object-Orientation from the Beginning pp 77–96Cite as

The VisualWorks Development Environment

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Back in Sect. 2.2, it was pointed out that Smalltalk programs have always been developed using a development environment. Such a development environment consists of the following components:

  • A graphical user interface that provides the programmer with various tools necessary for program development. These include Workspace, Inspector and Debugger.

  • A VM (which we’ve been calling SmaViM) that’s responsible for executing the Smalltalk programs.

  • Object storage, which contains all objects that the VM processes, including classes and their methods. This object storage is called the Image.

Smalltalk programs reside in object storage in byte code created by the compiler. The compiler is started when one adds a new method to a class or starts to execute a piece of program in the workspace (the so-called unbound method).

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Notes

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    Among others, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Linux.

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    You can do the same thing by selecting Go → Dive → yourself from the menu bar.

  3. 3.

    For this and all other representations of the system browser, we are assuming that the Toolbar and Status bar options have been deactivated in the Tools menu.

  4. 4.

    Chapter 17 contains some information about Store.

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  • Goldberg, A., Robson, D.: Smalltalk-80: The Language. Addison-Wesley, Reading (1989)

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    Johannes Brauer

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Brauer, J. (2015). The VisualWorks Development Environment. In: Programming Smalltalk – Object-Orientation from the Beginning. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-06823-3_5

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