Smalltalk

Hello World in Smalltalk

Every programming journey starts with Hello World. Let’s write our first Smalltalk program and experience the language that defined object-oriented programming.

The Code

Create a file named …

Variables and Types in Smalltalk

In Smalltalk, every value is an object — integers, floats, booleans, even nil and true. There are no primitive types, no special cases. This purity makes Smalltalk’s type system remarkably …

Operators in Smalltalk

In most languages, operators are baked into the grammar: + is a special symbol the parser knows about, with its own precedence table. Smalltalk takes a radically different view. There are no operators …