About GNU Smalltalk

GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language. It runs on most POSIX compatible operating systems (including GNU/Linux, of course), as well as under Windows. Smalltalk is a dynamic object-oriented language, well-versed to scripting tasks.

At a glance

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GNU Smalltalk 3.1

By Paolo Bonzini - Posted on October 19th, 2008

GNU Smalltalk 3.1 has been released at

 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-3.1.tar.gz

Compared to the 3.0.x branch, focus on porting libraries from other Smalltalks, adding bindings to other external libraries, and facilitating the creation of C/Smalltalk interfaces.

More in detail, changes between 3.0.5 and 3.1 include the following.

New base class features

  • BlockClosure methods #cull:, #cull:cull:, #cull:cull:cull: evaluate blocks removing parameters that are not accepted by the block.

GNU Smalltalk 3.0.5

By Paolo Bonzini - Posted on October 19th, 2008
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GNU Smalltalk 3.0.5 has been released at

    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-3.0.5.tar.gz

GNU Smalltalk 3.0.5 is the last release in the 3.0 stable branch.

New features and bugfixes include:

  • Bugfixes for gst-convert.
  • CallinProcesses can be terminated with Process>>#terminate.
  • DBI connection strings accept db/dbname/database, and host/hostname, as synonyms.
  • Fixed rare garbage collection bugs.
  • Fixed rounding error in Float>>#floorLog: and Float>>#ceilingLog:.
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