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Articles published by BYTE

• A New SMALLTALK Kernel Allowing Both Explicit And Implicit Metaclass Programming http://www.emn.fr/fran/recherche/dept_info/perso/rivard/pub.html;
• Smalltalk: A Reflective Language http://www.emn.fr/fran/recherche/dept_info/perso/rivard/pub.html;
• NeoClasstalk
• See also: http://www.emn.fr/cs/neoclasstalk/

• Né?°us: rules and object inferencing
• MusES: tonal music representation
• EpiTalk: generates advice and plan recognition
• BackTalk: constraint satisfaction and objects (See Constraint Satisfaction also)

Smalltalk language extensions

• Gilad Bracha, David Griswold; Strongtalk: Typechecking Smalltalk in a Production Environment; 1993.
• Gilad Bracha; The Strongtalk Type System for Smalltalk; 1996.
• Gilad Bracha, David Griswold; Extending Smalltalk with Mixins; 1996.
• see: http://www.bracha.org/
• David N. Smith; Proposal: Floating-Point Numbers in Smalltalk; 1996: http://www.dnsmith.com/dnsmith/Smalltalk/
• Steve Burbeck; Using Signatures to Improve Smalltalk Productivity and Reuse; 1995. ftp://ftp.create.ucsb.edu/pub/Smalltalk/Squeak/docs/SmalltalkSignatures.htm

Smalltalk history. Interesting papers and sites

• David M Harland, Hamish I E Gunn, Ian A Pringle, Bruno Beloff; The Rekursiv: An Architecture for Artificial Intelligence; AI / EUROPA Conference September 1986.
• David M Harland, Bruno Beloff; Microcoding an Object-Oriented Instruction Set; ACM/SIGARCH October 1986.
• David M Harland, Bruno Beloff; Objekt: A Persistent Object Store with an Integrated Garbage Collector; ACM/SIGPLAN April 1987.
• http://www.saqnet.co.uk/users/beloff/computing/
• http://www.spies.com/aek/alto/index.html Xerox Alto Archive. Downloadable copies of most original Alto documentation; no Smalltalk specific documents.
• Dan Ingall's classic paper "The Smalltalk-76 Programming System: Design and Implementation" from the Fifth Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, January 1978 http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/St76/Smalltalk76ProgrammingSystem.html. (in fact, all of http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/ is interesting!)Smalltalk-76.pdf

Miscellaneous

Smalltalk Bibliographies

• http://iamwww.unibe.ch/cgi-bin/oobib?smalltalk
• http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/testfiles/piernot/smtkinfo/smtktechreports.html

[I find this paper to be a bogus politicial interpretation of history from afar. Sort of like a Marxist interpretation of a college football game. Don't waste your time. –Ted Kaehler] Funny how wrong some people can be. This paper is a well-needed ballon-pricking, and everyone who seriously considers programming should read it. (Tim Rowledge says - I found it modest in aims and modest in achievement; hardly sharp enough to prick any balloons...)

Books

• The Art of the Metaobject Protocol; Gregor Kiczales, Jim des Riviè²¥s, and Daniel G. Bobrow, MIT Press, 1991, ISBN 0-262-61074-4.
• Object-Oriented Programming: The CLOS Perspective; Andreas Paepcke ed., MIT Press, 1993, ISBN 0-262-16136-2.

Reflection Metaobject Protocols.

• http://www.parc.xerox.com/spl/projects/mops. Papers and related sites
• MetaclassTalk : A Reflective extension of Smalltalk. Provides explicit metaclasses and a protocol to extend (1) read/writes of instance variables (2) message sends/receptions, and (3) method lookup and evaluation.
• CodA : An object meta-level architecture for Smalltalk which features decomposition by logical behaviour as its primary design guideline. Papers on this and related topics by JeffMcAffer are at http://web.yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/jeff/research/coda.html

Aspect-Oriented Programming

Computational Reflection and Meta-level Architectures

Programming Technology Lab (PROG), Vrije Universiteit Brussel

LENS Project

OO language based on late binding (via message passing), pure (i.e. mixin-based) inheritance and object-based encapsulation. Agora (below) takes a similar approach. http://progwww.vub.ac.be/pools/lens

Agora

Reflective, prototype based, object oriented programming language, based wholly on message passing. Has a syntax rather like Smalltalk but approaches creating objects, inheritance, etc., very differently. http://progwww.vub.ac.be/pools/agora

Implementations:

• Smalltalk: Agora94
• C++: Agora96
• Java: Agora98
• Scheme: Agora-S
• Minimix

Interesting GUI approaches

• Pad++ Zoomable Interface http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/jazz/learn/padtour/index.shtml. Pad's follow-ups are Jazz and Piccolo (both Open Source Java projects). See: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/jazz/
• The Magic Lens Interface Project http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/projects/MagicLenses

Programming by Example

Replication-based garbage collection

• Scott Nettles, James O'Toole, David Pierce, Nicholas Haines; Replication-Based Incremental Copying Collection; September 1992.
• Scott Nettles, James O'Toole; Real-Time Replication-Based Garbage Collection; June 1993.
• Scott Nettles, James O'Toole; Implementing Orthogonal Persistence: A Simple Optimization Based on Replicating Collection; December 1993.
• James O'Toole, Scott Nettles, David Gifford; Concurrent Compacting Garbage Collection of a Persistent Heap; December 1993.
• More: http://www.psrg.lcs.mit.edu/publications.html

Object Systems Group

• Jan Vitek, Compact Dispatch Tables for Dynamically Typed Programming Languages.
• Jan Vitek, R. Nigel Horspool, Compacting Dispatch Tables for Dynamically Typed Object Oriented Languages.
• Karel Driesen, Urs Hoelzle, Jan Vitek, Message Dispatch on Pipelined Processors.
• Jan Vitek, R. Nigel Horspool, Taming Message Passing: Efficient method lookup for dynamically typed object-oriented languages.
• http://cuiwww.unige.ch/osgrefs?osg-ftp

• The Reuse of Uses in Smalltalk Programming http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/tochi/1996-3-3/p219-rosson/