Explanation

The ideas behind Smalltalk and Cuis, and why they are the way they are.

• Design Principles Behind Smalltalk

  The purpose of the Smalltalk project is to provide computer support for the creative spirit in everyone.

• About Cuis Smalltalk

  What Cuis is, the philosophy behind it, and the origin of its name.

• Cuis is a Smalltalk-80 system. Why?

  What it means for Cuis to be a Smalltalk-80 system.

• Making Dynabooks Real

  Alan Kay on what it would take to make a Dynabook, in a 1998 message to the Squeak mailing list.

• A short history of Cuis

  Landmarks of the project, from its start in 2003 to the latest releases.

• FFI or VM plugins, what to use?

  Two ways to call external code from Cuis, and when each one fits.

• A quick orientation to FFI from Smalltalk

  What calling C from Smalltalk really involves, and how to do it so that it works.

• A semantics for ephemerons (& weak referrers)

  What ephemerons and weak references mean, and how the Spur memory manager implements them.

• Prefiltering Antialiasing for General Vector Graphics

  This work presents a simple and practical technique for the rasterization of general vector graphics with correct prefiltering antialiasing.

  Juan Vuletich · 2013-09

• Unicode support in Cuis Smalltalk

  It describes the approach used to support Unicode in Smalltalk source code and generally in Text objects.

  Juan Vuletich · 2022-11 · FAST Workshop 2022