The goal of this website is to help answer this very complex question. There are very many features in Smalltalk that combine to make it the best.
Much Smalltalk information: full text of many publications and tutorial slides; description of a suite of team productivity tools for VisualWorks Smalltalk and ENVY/Developer, The Bytesmiths Toolkit; information on Smalltalk consulting services. One of the Web's earliest Smalltalk sites: begun 1994.
Nearly 500 pages of Smalltalk: experience, real world experiences, stories, OOPLSA trip reports, information on Smalltalk garbage collection theory, directory for consultants.
Interest in decades-old language grows as developers use it for Web applications and services, where one piece of software talks to others without knowing much about the other system, a concept originated in Smalltalk. [InformationWeek]
Cohesive community where information, technical issues, new ideas, concerns are openly discussed to benefit the industry; for users and prospects, and those interested in many larger issues: standards, history.
By Dan Ingalls. Centerpiece article from the historic Smalltalk special issue, which sets out the main philosophy and principles of the system in terms any intelligent person can understand. [BYTE magazine]
Unique description, links: Smalltalk, Squeak. [Open Content]
Wiki-based trip report Go Smalltalk! conference to be held in Cincinnati Ohio, at Hyatt Regency Hotel and Cincinnati Convention Center, on 2002 April 22-24.
Tools to join and navigate the Smalltalk Webring.
Briefly defines term, lists several good links for more information.
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