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Smalltalker en · NOUN

Etymology

From Smalltalk + -er.

Meanings

1. One who uses the Smalltalk programming language.
   • Smalltalkers feel comfortable using Smalltalk's reflective capabilities to build and integrate new programming tools into the Smalltalk environment. 1998, Sherman R. Alpert, Kyle Brown, Bobby Woolf, The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 8:
   • Smalltalkers sometimes refer to an action “to answer,” which is analogous to the action “to return” found in other languages. 2023, Norman Ramsey, Programming Languages: Build, Prove, and Compare, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 708:
   • There is, however, a core of developers who have been producing fully OO applications for years: Smalltalkers. 1998, Michael Knapik, Jay Johnson, Developing Intelligent Agents for Distributed Systems: Exploring Architecture, Technologies, and Applications, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 314:
   • 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. 2004, David West, Object Thinking, Microsoft Press, →ISBN, page 37:
   • Lispers famously claim their language “has no syntax”, while Smalltalkers proudly show that you can fit the entire grammar on an index card. 2021, Robert Nystrom, Crafting Interpreters, Genever Benning, →ISBN:
   • 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. 2008, Ed Burns, Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers: Riding the IT Crest, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 36:
   • Smalltalkers will thus gleefully make ad hominum^([sic]) 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. 1993, Object Magazine, volume 3, COOT, Incorporated, page 28:
   • Questions and answers for novice Smalltalkers 1989, Byte, volume 14, page 273:
   • 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. 2001, Software Development, volume 9, Miller Freeman, Inc., page 45:
   • A humorous look at Java and its programmers. As Smalltalkers, we found it almost enough to make Java tolerable. 2001, Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, Chet Hendrickson, Extreme Programming Installed (The XP Series), Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 250:
   • 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. 1995, Dr. Dobb’s Developer Update, volume 2:

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