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It is the standard library on the platform, of course it counts.

Get Smalltalk-80 reference manual without the UI documentation of its standard library, and no, GNU Smalltalk is not a complete implementation.



"The standard does not attempt to specify areas where current implementations differ in significant ways. In particular, as the goal statement implies, we did not include graphics, user interface, or database accessing objects in the library."

1997 DRAFT ANSI Smalltalk Standard

https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/uploads/172/standard_v1_9-ind...


That is not Smalltalk-80 as originally designed....


Smalltalk-80 is not Smalltalk "as originally designed".

(Moving goal posts.)


We're not talking about platforms, we're talking about languages.


Which in several cases are the same.




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