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diff --git a/lang/squeak/pkg-descr b/lang/squeak/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..c451fd6794a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/lang/squeak/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk-80 implementation whose +virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk, making it easy to +debug, analyze, and change; it includes among other things: + * a rapid-turn-around Smalltalk-80 compiler, + * a caching-JIT run-time virtual machine (with full source in + Smalltalk), + * large class libraries with portable data and GUI models, and + * an integrated development environment with powerful coding + tools and GUI construction tools. + +Squeak was developed at Apple Labs, Walt Disney and has been ported +to a variety of computers (including most flavors of UNIX and Windows). +Compared to other Smalltalk systems, Squeak has 4 important features: + * Portability (to Mac, Windows, WinCE, and many flavors of UNIX); + * Speed (it uses native C for compute-intensive code); + * Price (free, including all source code and the right to distribute + applications!); and + * Sophistication (full Smalltalk-80 language, libraries, and tools). + +Squeak comes under an open source license, meaning that you can +download and use it for free. + +WWW: http://www.squeak.org/ (Squeak project) + http://www-sor.inria.fr/~piumarta/squeak/ (Unix Squeak) |