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Seaside for Squeak Smalltalk on the iPhone

Monday, June 15th, 2009

As reported in an interview on InfoQ, Smalltalk has arrived on the iPhone. The irony is that until now JavaScript or Objective-C were the options for programming the Apple iPhone or the iPod Touch. But JavaScript was in part the work of the StrongTalk Smalltalk team and came out of second-generation Smalltalk or Self. And Objective-C, like Ruby or Io, is Smalltalk for programmers who, well, aren’t working in Smalltalk.
Now to see if CINCOM VisualWorks Smalltalk arrives as a commercial option for the iPhone.
In the meantime, Smalltalk continues to evolve with the revival of Slate as Clean Slate Smalltalk. We have come a long ways since the case against a VM with bytecode was the case against Smalltalk - and not very far at all.
But is Smalltalk still an option for the Whirlwind/Vortex project out at WASP?
More to follow …

For info on Seaside, click here.

For info on Squeak Smalltalk on the iPhone, click here.

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