About:
Slate is a prototype-based object-oriented programming language based on Self, CLOS, and Smalltalk. Slate syntax is Smalltalk-80-based, rather than trying to be clever and complex. However, the language semantics, environment, and run-time design are all much more powerful than in traditional Smalltalk systems. The design goal is to bring together many excellent existing ideas into one system, and to provide an environment where design decisions in one area don't constrain others.

Release focus: Minor feature enhancements

Changes:
This release adds single-process event-loop concurrency with promises, a platform information/control plugin, online help for the REPL and Debugger, use of an extended define: form to replace the addPrototype:/addSlot: hassles, additional higher-order collection and stream manipulation facilities, slot-observer pattern support, and support for logical directory locations such as the home or current directory, resolved dynamically on use.

Author:
Brian T. Rice [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.50/10.00 (3 votes)

Homepage:
http://slate.tunes.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://slate.tunes.org/downloads/slate-0.3.5.tgz
Changelog:
http://slate.tunes.org/repos/main/NEWS
Debian package:
http://slate.tunes.org/downloads/debian/
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://slate.tunes.org/cgi-bin/darcs.cgi/
Mailing list archive:
http://lists.tunes.org/archives/slate/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		3 - Alpha
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), Console (Text Based) :: Curses
[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved :: MIT/X Consortium License
[Operating System]		OS Independent
[Programming Language]		C, Other, Smalltalk
[Topic]		Software Development :: Compilers, Software Development :: Interpreters

Dependencies: [change]
ncurses (optional)
SDL_gfx (optional)
Simple DirectMedia Layer (optional)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.3.5	10-Aug-2005	MIT/X Consortium License

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
0.3.5	Minor feature enhancements	10-Aug-2005 07:14
0.3.4	Minor feature enhancements	08-Jun-2005 23:20
0.3.3	Minor feature enhancements	11-Apr-2005 23:29
0.3.2	Minor feature enhancements	21-Feb-2005 22:44
0.3.1	Minor bugfixes	31-Oct-2004 21:55
0.3	Major feature enhancements	08-Aug-2004 21:44
0.2.1	Minor bugfixes	05-Jan-2004 13:12
0.2	Major feature enhancements	08-Dec-2003 12:16
0.1	Initial freshmeat announcement	30-Jul-2003 08:24