At 23:05 -0400 6/26/98, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:

Dan Ingalls wrote: (snip)

Since I can't seem to find a copy of that book through my libary, I'd be _real_ happy if you could post that info...

Please?

Willam

...

The implementation of blocks was pretty much the same as ST-80, but I fixed a couple of problems in ST-80. If you can get hold of it, there's a chapter in the "Green Book" (Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice) that I wrote with a summary of what changed in each generation from ST-72-74-76-78-80.

    - Dan

I just read this thread, so sorry to jump in so late.

The Green Book is often available from Powell's in Portland. THey carry new and used technical books.

http://www.powells.portland.or.us/

If you don't have a copy you should; it's full of neat papers on the 'early' years of -80.

There is also a quite long paper in the second History of Programming Languages book from Addison-Wesley on the history of Smalltalk by Alan Kay. It has examples of -72 as well. This book should still be in print. (1995?)

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