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Smalltalk

Last Updated May 24, 2021 1:55 pm

An object-oriented operating system and programming language developed at Xerox Corporation’s Palo Alto Research Center. Smalltalk was the first object-oriented programming language (Simula was the very first). Although it never achieved the commercial success of other languages such as C++ and Java, Smalltalk is considered by many to be the only true object-oriented programming environment, and the one against which all others must be compared.

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