Preface
When I began writing my first book on Smalltalk in 1983, I distinctly remember thinking that I must write quickly so as to not miss the crest of the object-oriented programming wave. Who would have thought that two decades later object-oriented programming would still be going strong? And what a long, strange trip it has been.
In the two decades that object-oriented programming has been studied, it has become the dominant programming paradigm. In the process, it has changed almost every facet of computer science. And yet I find that my goal for the third edition of this book has remained unchanged from the first. It is still my hope to impart to my students and, by extension, my readers an understanding of object-oriented programming ...
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