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《Byte》杂志 Smalltalk 特刊（1984）
Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984)
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这是 Byte 杂志一期以 Smalltalk 为专题的扫描版，收录多篇长文，介绍 Smalltalk-80、面向对象编程以及 Xerox PARC 的相关工作。对当时的微型计算机读者来说，它是一次难得且篇幅惊人的技术全景展示。
为什么经久不衰：它把 Smalltalk 和面向对象思想带进大众技术视野，今天读来既能追溯 OOP 及其后续语言影响的源头，也能理解一种优雅语言为何难以走向生产。
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Smalltalk 语言优雅，但镜像式开发部署让它难以成为生产语言。
Smalltalk 至今仍是我最喜欢的语言。我从 1960 年代开始用 BASIC 和 FORTRAN 编程，退休前用二十多种语言做过生产系统；写 Java 代码最多，但最有趣的系统是用 Fortran、Pascal、Object Pascal 写的。我最不喜欢 LISP，其次是 C++ 和 COBOL（如果 APL 项目上过生产，大概会垫底），但我爱 Smalltalk。不幸的是，Smalltalk 在时机未到时就被过度炒作，而且基于镜像的开发和部署方式严重限制了它作为生产语言。它是一门真正优雅可爱的语言，却绑在一个很糟糕的工程范式上。
walnutclosefarm查看英文原文
Smalltalk remains my all time favorite language. I started programming in the 1960s, with BASIC and FORTRAN (FORTRAN II, in fact, from McCracken's famous "Guide"), and before I quit coding professionally, implemented production systems in more than two dozen different languages. Wrote the most lines of code in Java, but the most interesting systems in Fortran, Pascal, Object Pascal (and one in Concurrent Pascal). Liked LISP least of all, followed closely by C++ and COBOL (although APL would probably be at the bottom, had anything I did in that strange elixir ever reach production - none did), but I loved Smalltalk. Unfortunately, Smalltalk arrived to too much hype before it's (potential) time, and was crippled as production language by it's image based development and deployment methodology. A truly elegant and sweet language coupled to a really awful engineering paradigm. Thinking back on all this, I am astonished once again at how much has happened in computing in my lifetime (I am older than FORTRAN, e.g., so essentially all code every compiled has been compiled in my lifetime, unless you want to count Autocoder macros as compiled code).
Smalltalk 的持久影响更多经由 Self 传到 JavaScript，而非自身广泛应用。
当时 Smalltalk 看起来会很重要，它的营销确实很好。除了作为施乐 UI 的实现语言、并被演示给史蒂夫·乔布斯之外，它对世界的主要影响似乎是通过影响 Self 语言，再影响到 JavaScript。于是就有了今天。
ncmncm查看英文原文
Smalltalk looked at the time like it was going to be important. It had really good marketing. Its main effect on the world, aside from being the implementation language for the Xerox UI that was demonstrated to Steve Jobs, seems to have been via its influence on the language Self, which then influenced Javascript. And here we are.
这期篇幅惊人，其中 Smalltalk 块闭包作为一等对象的设计尤其令人怀念。
我总觉得把这一期叫“杂志”很好笑，它将近 500 页。我最喜欢的是 Peter Deutsch 写控制结构的那一章，从第 322 页开始。我做了 20 年 Smalltalk，无法用语言表达我多爱 Smalltalk 的块闭包：它是一种可具体化、可扩展并多态使用的对象类型，是 Smalltalk 未被充分赞颂的天才之处。每次我用 Python lambda、Swift 闭包或 Kotlin 闭包时，都会叹气怀念。
travisgriggs查看英文原文
I’m always amused that this is called a magazine. At least this particular issue. It’s nearly 500 pages long!! My favorite chapter in the tome is the one by Peter Deutsch on control structures. Starts on page 322. I did Smalltalk for 20 years. I don’t have right words to express how much I loved the Smalltalk block closure, the fact that it was a reified object type that you could extend and use polymorphically is one of the unsung geniuses in Smalltalk. Every time I use python lambdas or Swift’s closures or Kotlin’s closures (the three closure enabled languages I use most today), I just sigh and wish.
Smalltalk 的开发体验极具吸引力，但封闭的镜像世界让生产部署异常困难。
如果你能越过语法，Smalltalk 是个极好的时间黑洞。我在大学第一次接触 Squeak Smalltalk 时，它立刻俘获了我：出色的集合库、集成 IDE、集成版本控制、没有文件。最令人兴奋的是，你交互的一切都带着底层代码，可以在运行时修改。但要把 Smalltalk 作品发布到生产环境，总是最复杂的任务。Smalltalk 是一座孤岛，一座美丽、可以让你迷失多年的孤岛，但仍然是一座孤岛。
dominicl查看英文原文
Smalltalk is an amazing time sink if you can get past the syntax. Having learned about it with Squeak Smalltalk the first time during University, it immediately captured my mind. The great collection library, integrated ide, integrated version control, the absence of files. And most exciting everything you interact with comes with it's underlying code and can be changed at runtime. Unfortunately trying to release a Smalltalk creation into production always turned out to be the most complex task. Smalltalk is an island. A beautiful island you can get lost in for years. But still an island.
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