Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation

Adele Goldberg, David Robson

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eatonphilNov 22, 2021

Awesome! Specifically not on my list already there's: Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming; Smalltalk-80: The language and its implementation; The Architecture of Symbolic Computers and Project Oberon: The design of an operating system and compiler. This reminds me Niklaus Wirth's Compiler Construction probably belongs in this thread.

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EdwardCoffinApr 30, 2008

I'll second "Smalltalk-80 The language and its implementation". You can get the implementation chapter online now: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/64

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