Portia: An instance-centered environment for Smalltalk

Eric Gold; Mary Beth Rosson

doi:10.1145/118014.117959

Portia: An instance-centered environment for Smalltalk

Eric Gold, Mary Beth Rosson

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Smalltalk environments should accommodate programmers' conceptualizations of objects as independent, communicating agents by providing tools that allow them to work directly with instances. This paper discusses the requirements for such an environment, assesses the standard Smalltalk environment in this respect, and describes an enhanced Smalltalk environment called Portia which provides additional facilities for interacting with instances.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	62-74
Number of pages	13
Journal	ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Volume	26
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/118014.117959
State	Published - Jan 11 1991

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