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One of my all-time favorite programming books, about Smalltalk, is Smalltalk-80. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201113716/

That may be interest to those who want to investigate more.

⬐ stuki

Another is Beck's "Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns." Just like Smalltalk-80, it's a book relevant for anyone writing software, almost regardless of language and discipline.

⬐ mahmud

Now freely available online, among tons of other Smalltalk books:

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/

[Edit: removed direct link to PDF]

Two books if that's permitted:

1. "Smalltalk-80 The Languange and its Implementation" - They eventually dropped the implementation chapters from the book, but you can still get the original edition used on Amazon if you're curious as to how Smalltalk was implemented (http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0201113716/ref=dp_olp...). I'm surprised at how cheap they are, as the book is considered a collector's item.

2. "Computer Lib" by Ted Nelson (http://www.digibarn.com/collections/books/computer-lib/)

And, as a bonus, the TRS-80 Model I Users Manual. I still remember the first "program" the book taught me:

10 PRINT "HEY MA, IT WORKS!"

20 END

⬐ EdwardCoffin

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

⬐ dmb

There is a legal HTML'd version of the missing chapters here:

http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/bluebook/bluebook_im...

I also vaguely remember the ACM releasing the full PDF of the book if you signed up for a free account. It was posted on lambda-the-ultimate at some point.

More than a few years. This was the book that got everyone interested in OOP:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201113716

As the name suggests, the language it describes was developed in 1980.

⬐ ralph

I said "in the mainstream", not academia. I'm talking about when personnel departments heard of it and when marketing departments started labelling everything OO.

⬐ weel

Symbolics was advertising their FLAVORS object oriented system in the mid-80s. And Symbolics was, literally, the first dot-com.

http://smbx.org/index.php/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=76

⬐ ralph

You're bringing up a pioneer in the commercial world of OO, I'm talking about suits using the term OO without knowing what the letters stood for.