Dolphin Smalltalk

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; 28 years ago
Stable release	7.1.24 / 19 June 2022; 3 years ago
Preview release	8.0 / January 2024; 2 years ago
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

^ ^a ^b "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)

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

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