Smalltalker

See also: small-talker

English

Etymology

From Smalltalk +‎ -er.

Noun

Smalltalker (plural Smalltalkers)

1. One who uses the Smalltalk programming language.
   • 1989, Byte, volume 14, page 273:

     Questions and answers for novice Smalltalkers

   • 1993, Object Magazine, volume 3, COOT, Incorporated, page 28:

     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.

   • 1995, Dr. Dobb’s Developer Update, volume 2:

     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.

   • 1998, Michael Knapik, Jay Johnson, Developing Intelligent Agents for Distributed Systems: Exploring Architecture, Technologies, and Applications, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 314:

     There is, however, a core of developers who have been producing fully OO applications for years: Smalltalkers.

   • 1998, Sherman R. Alpert, Kyle Brown, Bobby Woolf, The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 8:

     Smalltalkers feel comfortable using Smalltalk's reflective capabilities to build and integrate new programming tools into the Smalltalk environment.

   • 2001, Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, Chet Hendrickson, Extreme Programming Installed (The XP Series), Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 250:

     A humorous look at Java and its programmers. As Smalltalkers, we found it almost enough to make Java tolerable.

   • 2001, Software Development, volume 9, Miller Freeman, Inc., page 45:

     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.

   • 2004, David West, Object Thinking, Microsoft Press, →ISBN, page 37:

     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.

   • 2008, Ed Burns, Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers: Riding the IT Crest, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 36:

     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.

   • 2021, Robert Nystrom, Crafting Interpreters, Genever Benning, →ISBN:

     Lispers famously claim their language “has no syntax”, while Smalltalkers proudly show that you can fit the entire grammar on an index card.

   • 2023, Norman Ramsey, Programming Languages: Build, Prove, and Compare, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 708:

     Smalltalkers sometimes refer to an action “to answer,” which is analogous to the action “to return” found in other languages.