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Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk-80 implementation whose
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virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk, making it easy to
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debug, analyze, and change; it includes among other things:
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* a rapid-turn-around Smalltalk-80 compiler,
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* a caching-JIT run-time virtual machine (with full source in
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Smalltalk),
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* large class libraries with portable data and GUI models, and
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* an integrated development environment with powerful coding
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tools and GUI construction tools.
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Squeak was developed at Apple Labs, Walt Disney and has been ported
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to a variety of computers (including most flavors of UNIX and Windows).
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Compared to other Smalltalk systems, Squeak has 4 important features:
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* Portability (to Mac, Windows, WinCE, and many flavors of UNIX);
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* Speed (it uses native C for compute-intensive code);
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* Price (free, including all source code and the right to distribute
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applications!); and
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* Sophistication (full Smalltalk-80 language, libraries, and tools).
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Squeak comes under an open source license, meaning that you can
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download and use it for free.
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WWW: http://www.squeak.org/ (Squeak project)
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http://www-sor.inria.fr/~piumarta/squeak/ (Unix Squeak)
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