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| • Overview: | | What GNU Smalltalk is.
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| • Using GNU Smalltalk: | | Running GNU Smalltalk.
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| • Features: | | A description of GNU Smalltalk’s special features.
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| • Packages: | | An easy way to install Smalltalk code into an image.
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| • Emacs: | | GNU Smalltalk and Emacs.
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| • C and Smalltalk: | | GNU Smalltalk’s C/Smalltalk interoperability features.
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| • Tutorial: | | An introduction to Smalltalk and OOP.
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| • Invocation: | | What you can specify on the command line.
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| • Operation: | | A step-by-step description of the
startup process and a short description of
how to interact with GNU Smalltalk.
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| • Syntax: | | A description of the input file syntax
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| • Test suite: | | How to run the test suite system.
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| • Legal concerns: | | Licensing of GNU Smalltalk
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| • Command-line processing: | | Picking an image path and a kernel path.
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| • Loading or creating an image: | | Loading an image or creating a new one.
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| • Starting the system: | | After the image is created or restored.
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| • GPL: | | Complying with the GNU GPL.
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| • LGPL: | | Complying with the GNU LGPL.
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| • Extended streams: | | Extensions to streams, and generators
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| • Regular expressions: | | String matching extensions
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| • Namespaces: | | Avoiding clashes between class names.
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| • Disk file-IO: | | Methods for reading and writing disk files.
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| • Object dumping: | | Methods that read and write objects in binary format.
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| • Dynamic loading: | | Picking external libraries and modules at run-time.
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| • Documentation: | | Automatic documentation generation.
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| • Memory access: | | The direct memory accessing classes and methods, plus
broadcasts from the virtual machine.
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| • GC: | | The GNU Smalltalk memory manager.
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| • Security: | | Sandboxing and access control.
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| • Special objects: | | Methods to assign particular properties to objects.
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| • GTK and VisualGST: | |
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| • Parser, STInST, Compiler: | |
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| • DBI: | |
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| • I18N: | |
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| • Seaside: | |
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| • Swazoo: | |
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| • SUnit: | |
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| • Sockets, WebServer, NetClients: | |
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| • XML, XPath, XSL: | |
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| • Other packages: | |
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| • Editing: | | Autoindent and more for GNU Smalltalk.
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| • Interactor: | | Smalltalk interactor mode.
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| • External modules: | | Linking your libraries to the virtual machine
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| • C callout: | | Calls from Smalltalk to C
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| • C data types: | | Manipulating C data from Smalltalk
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| • Smalltalk types: | | Manipulating Smalltalk data from C
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| • Smalltalk callin: | | Calls from C to Smalltalk
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| • Object representation: | | Manipulating your own Smalltalk objects
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| • Incubator: | | Protecting newly created objects from garbage
collections
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| • Other C functions: | | Handling and creating OOPs
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| • Using Smalltalk: | | The Smalltalk environment as an extension library
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| • Getting started: | | Starting to explore GNU Smalltalk
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| • Some classes: | | Using some of the Smalltalk classes
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| • The hierarchy: | | The Smalltalk class hierarchy
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| • Creating classes: | | Creating a new class of objects
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| • Creating subclasses: | | Adding subclasses to another class
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| • Code blocks (I): | | Control structures in Smalltalk
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| • Code blocks (II): | | Guess what? More control structures
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| • Debugging: | | Things go bad in Smalltalk too!
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| • More subclassing: | | Coexisting in the class hierarchy
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| • Streams: | | Something really powerful
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| • Exception handling: | | More sophisticated error handling
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| • Behind the scenes: | | Some nice stuff from the Smalltalk innards
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| • And now: | | Some final words
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| • The syntax: | | For the most die-hard computer scientists
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