| 1. | At one point a version of Smalltalk was implemented in Self.
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| 2. | In browsing Smalltalk classes the developer gleans definitions from executing objects.
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| 3. | They were used as the finalization mechanism in Visual Smalltalk Enterprise.
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| 4. | Like Smalltalk, everything was an object, including small integers.
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| 5. | The language was first generally released as Smalltalk-80.
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| 6. | Its syntax and execution model were very different from modern Smalltalk variants.
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| 7. | ANSI Smalltalk has been the standard language reference since 1998.
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| 8. | VisualWorks was sold to Cincom and is now part of Cincom Smalltalk.
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| 9. | Smalltalk originally accepted this left-arrow as the only assignment operator.
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| 10. | The message is the most fundamental language construct in Smalltalk.
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