Smalltalker

small-talker English Etymology From en Smalltalk er occupation. Noun One who uses the Smalltalk programming language. en Byte 14 1989 273 Questions and answers for novice Smalltalkers en Object Magazine 3 COOT, Incorporated 1993 28 Smalltalkers will thus gleefully make ad hominum attacks by noting the folly of large C++ projects (“Small is beautiful” is the appropriate rallying cry), but C++ers will often counter by pointing out the lack of disciplined development by some Smalltalkers. en Dr. Dobb’s Developer Update 2 1995 Even though the conference seemed heavy on Smalltalk (including invited speeches by noted Smalltalkers David Thomas and Adele Goldberg) and, to a lesser degree, Eiffel (with Bertrand Meyer), C++ still managed to squeeze its way into the conference. en Michael Knapik; Jay Johnson Developing Intelligent Agents for Distributed Systems: Exploring Architecture, Technologies, and Applications McGraw-Hill 1998 314 9780070350113 There is, however, a core of developers who have been producing fully OO applications for years: Smalltalkers. en Sherman R. Alpert; Kyle Brown; Bobby Woolf The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion w:Addison-Wesley 1998 8 9780201184624 Smalltalkers feel comfortable using Smalltalk's reflective capabilities to build and integrate new programming tools into the Smalltalk environment. en Ron Jeffries; Ann Anderson; Chet Hendrickson Extreme Programming Installed The XP Series w:Addison-Wesley 2001 250 0201708426 A humorous look at Java and its programmers. As Smalltalkers, we found it almost enough to make Java tolerable. en Software Development 9 w:Miller Freeman, Inc. 2001 45 Smalltalkers of the World Unite! Although it’s now a long time since I did anything with it, I nominate Smalltalk—I still haven’t come across anything quite like it for being able to transfer thoughts into computer code. en David West Object Thinking w:Microsoft Press 2004 37 0735637512 Disagreement between Smalltalkers and C++ers gains added interest from the fact that both claim to be the direct heirs of another, older, language, SIMULA. en Ed Burns Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers: Riding the IT Crest McGraw Hill Professional 2008 36 9780071490832 Adrian: Now, there are a few people who—Smalltalkers prior to that—who bring across this whole message-passing way of understanding what is actually syntactically fairly similar on the surface. en Robert Nystrom Crafting Interpreters Genever Benning 2021 978-0-9905829-4-6 Lispers famously claim their language “has no syntax”, while Smalltalkers proudly show that you can fit the entire grammar on an index card. en Norman Ramsey Programming Languages: Build, Prove, and Compare w:Cambridge University Press 2023 708 978-1-107-18018-5 Smalltalkers sometimes refer to an action “to answer,” which is analogous to the action “to return” found in other languages.