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Overview of Smalltalk

• Smalltalk is a pure OOP language
  • Everything is an object
  • All computation is through objects sending messages to objects
  • It adopts none of the appearance of imperative languages

• The Smalltalk Environment
  • The first complete GUI system
  • A complete system for software development
  • All of the system source code is available to the user, who can modify it if he/she wants