Dolphin Smalltalk

Dolphin Smalltalk

Dolphin Smalltalk 7
Paradigm	object-oriented
Family	Smalltalk
Designed by	Andy Bower, Blair McGlashan
Developers	Intuitive Systems, Object Arts
First appeared	1 August 1997;27 years ago (1997-08-01)
Stable release	7.1.24 / 19 June 2022;2 years ago (2022-06-19) [1]
Preview release	8.0 / January 2024;1 year 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.

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).

Features

• Integration of the Refactoring Browser tools from Refactory Inc.
• Package-based browsing environment as an alternative to a conventional Smalltalk class hierarchy browser.
• A tabbed container to manage Dolphin browsers and tools and associating them together with a given idea or workflow. The goal is to save screen space and clutter and to help developers focus on their train of thought.
• Source code management very similar to the ENVY source code manager that was available for some other commercial Smalltalk dialects.

References

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

• Knight, Alan. "Two New Smalltalks" (PDF). The Smalltalk Report.

• Bower, Andy; McGlashan, Blair. "Twisting the Triad" (PDF). Retrieved 12 May 2025. (Tutorial for the 2000 European Smalltalk User Group conference)

• Whitehouse, Colin (24 May 2004). "The Smalltalk Programming Language: A Comparison with Java". CiteSeerX . Retrieved 12 May 2025.

• Bracht, Ted (2001). The Dolphin Smalltalk Companion: A Hands-on Guide to Building Complete Applications. Addison-Wesley. ISBN   978-0-201-73793-6 . Retrieved 12 May 2025.

External links

• Official website [Dec 2024]
• Dolphin Smalltalk on GitHub

• "Learn Dolphin Smalltalk". Bitwise Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2025. (tutorial)