date: '2004-08-08 12:31:45' layout: post slug: how-to-read-smalltalk-if-you-are-a-java-or-c-programmer status: publish ref: http://www.squeak.org/ title: How to read Smalltalk if you are a Java or C++ programmer. wordpress_id: '38' categories: Programming
My programming language trajectory has been BASIC –> FORTRAN –> Pascal –> C –> C++ –> Java with a few diversions such as Perl and Python. On the way I have become a firm convert to object-oriented programming, and as such I always found my lack of knowledge in Smalltalk was a big gap.
Now that I sit near Alan Kay and have been impressed by Squeak and Croquet I have felt it was time to fill in that gap in my knowledge.
However, I did find initially that the syntactical differences of Smalltalk were a barrier to my understanding, one of the reasons I have created my own Java-Smalltalk cheatsheet.
So I was delighted to find Wilf LaLonde's tutorial, I Can Read C++ and Java But I Can’t Read Smalltalk.