Dolphin Smalltalk

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Dolphin Smalltalk
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Dolphin Smalltalk 7
Paradigm object-oriented
Family Smalltalk
Designed by Andy Bower,
Blair McGlashan
Developers Intuitive Systems,
Object Arts
First appeared1 August 1997;26 years ago (1997-08-01)
Stable release
7.1.24 / 19 June 2022;21 months ago (2022-06-19) [1]
Preview release
8.0 / January 2024;3 months ago (2024-01)
Typing discipline objects, dynamic
Scope Lexical (static)
Implementation language Smalltalk
Platform IA-32, x86-64
OS Windows
License MIT
Website www.object-arts.com
Influenced by
Smalltalk-80

Dolphin Smalltalk, or "Dolphin" for short, is an implementation of the programming language Smalltalk for Microsoft Windows.

Contents

The Dolphin 7 version release coincided with the project becoming free and open-source software under an MIT License. [1]

Dolphin uses an integrated development environment. The toolset of this Smalltalk dialect include an integrated refactoring browser, a package browser and a WYSIWYG "view composer". Dolphin deviates from the conventional Smalltalk framework of model–view–controller (MVC), instead using model–view–presenter (MVP).

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References

  1. 1 2 "Dolphin Smalltalk 7 is Open Source". 29 December 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2016.