Squeak Documents

This folder contains a variety of Squeak-related documents, ranging from historical to legal.

The Squeak License: The (liberal) Apple license for using Squeak.
Smalltalk FAQ: The FAQ for all flavors of Smalltalk.
The Squeak Outline: A collection of the on-line documents that are included in the standard version 3.0 Squeak virtual image.
SqueakBook for a Squeak Presentation: A Squeak virtual image with a slide show about Squeak.
Smalltalk in the Age of Java: A report from IDC about the market for Smalltak applications. (c) 1997. International Data Corporation. Used by permission.
ANSI Smalltalk Standard: The ANSI Smalltalk Language Standard.
ThingLab Manual: Alan Borning's report on ThingLab, from the Xerox PARC internal report.
Mark's Slides: Slides from a presentation about Squeak from Mark Guzdial.
Where is Squeak Headed? (1998 version): A note from the Disney Squeak team (AKA Squeak Central) about their plans for Squeak; includes the 1997 comments.
Where is Squeak Headed? (2000 version): A note from the Disney Squeak team (AKA Squeak Central) about their more recent plans for Squeak.

Model/View/Controller Cookbook: An article by Glenn Krasner and Stephen Pope from the Journal of Object-Oriented Programming (also available as a PDF file.) Copyright 1988 Cincom Systems,Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.
MVC How-To: An article from Steve Burbeck on MVC programming.
Instantiation Papers: A series of in-depth articles from the staff of Instantiations, Inc. (primarily Juanita Ewing) that originally appeared in The Smalltalk Report in the mid-1990s. Used by permission.
Classic Smalltalk Bugs: Ralph Johnson's (UIUC) list of the most common pitfalls and misunderstandings.
Using the Emergency Evaluator: An email exchange about the use of the Squeak emergency evaluator (not that you'll ever need it...).
Releasing Squeak Applications: An email exchange about how to package up a Squeak virtual image for release as an end-user application.

See also the collection of Squeak Tutorials elsewhere on this CD-ROM.

Squeak Announcement: The original (1996) announcement of the availability of Squeak from Apple Research (some images missing).
Design Principles Behind Smalltalk: The classic article by Dan Ingalls from the August, 1981 Byte Magazine.
The Smalltalk-76 Programming System Design and Implementation: The classic Dan Ingalls paper from the 1978 ACM symposium on the principles of programming languages.
Star Comments: Excerpts from the Xerox STAR retrospective about early Smalltalk.
Byte Balloon GIF File: A scan of the Robert Tinney painting of a balloon that graced the cover of the August, 1981 issue of Byte Magazine.

For more reference information, see the Web links page, and the Swiki on this CD-ROM.

Stephen Travis Pope -- stp@create.ucsb.edu -- 2001.02.06