Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation

Name: Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation
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ISBN-10: 0201113716
ISBN-13: 9780201113716
Pages: 714
Language: English
Published: 1983
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Authors: David Robson, Adele Goldberg

Description

Objects and messages. Expression syntax. Classes and instances. Subclasses. Metaclasses. Protocol for all objects. Linear measures. Numerical classes. Protocol for all collection classes. Hierarchy of the collection classes. Three examples that use collections. Protocol for streams. Implementations of the basic collection protocol. Kernel support. Multiple independent processes. Protocol for classes. The programming interface. Graphics Kernel. Pens. Display objects. Probability distributions. Event-driven simulations. Statistics gathering in Event-drive simulations. The use of reesources in event-drive simulations. Coordinated resources for event-drive simulations. The implementation. Specification of the virtual machine. Formal specification of the interpreter. Formal specification of the primitive methods. Formal specification of the object memory. Subject index. System index. Example class index. Implementation index.