4.2. Introduction to VisualWorks
VisualWorks is a trademarked product of Cincom Systems, Inc. It is a complete Smalltalk development environment that includes an implementation of the Smalltalk language, a virtual machine for executing Smalltalk code, and a wide assortment of tools for creating applications in Smalltalk.
VisualWorks provides an integrated environment with a so-called Model-View Controller (MVC), a very popular OOP idea created by Smalltalk. VisualWorks provides and runs a virtual machine (object engine) to process the data in a Smalltalk image. Actually, the virtual machine is an executable file that interprets and executes Smalltalk byte-code stored in the image.
To develop a program under the VisualWorks environment, you must ...
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