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>"Smalltalk is a programming language (+runtime, GUI, development environment) that originated at the Xerox PARC research center in the early 1970s ..."

I'm curious was it used as a standalone OO language outside of GUI development as well or was its primary focus for building graphical UIs?




There are definitely applications of Smalltalk outside of GUI development, e.g. in robotics: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Robotics

One example is NXTalk, a Smalltalk system (with its own VM implementation that differs from Smalltalk-80) developed in Robert Hirschfeld's research group (hi Michael! :)) at HPI. NXTalk runs on second generation (ARM7-based) Lego Mindstorms robots in 64kB RAM and 256kB Flash:

https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/projects/nxtalk/in...

There's also a related discussion about Smalltalk use cases at c2.com: https://wiki.c2.com/?WhatsBeenDoneInSmalltalk




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