Cuis is
- Small
- Clean
- Appropriable
- Open Source
- Self contained
- Multiplatform
- A complete development environment written in itself
- A pure, dynamic Object Oriented language
We follow a set of ideas that started with Jean Piaget's Constructivism, and later explored in Seymour Papert's Mathland. These lead to Alan Kay's Learning Research Group's Personal Computer for Children of All Ages, Personal Dynamic Media, i.e. the Dynabook and then to Smalltalk-80. To us, a Smalltalk system is a Dynabook. A place to experiment and learn, and a medium to express the knlowledge we acquire. We understand software development as the activity of learning and documenting knowledge, for us and others to use, and also to be run on a computer. The fact that the computer run is useful, is a consequence of the knowldege being sound and relevant. (Just making it run is not the important part!)
Cuis Smalltalk is our attempt at this. Furthermore, we believe we are doing something else that no other Smalltalk, commercial or open source, does. We attempt to give the true Smalltalk-80 experience, and keep Smalltalk-80 not as legacy software to be run in an emulator, but as a live, evolving system. We feel we are the real keepers of Smalltalk-80, and enablers of the Dynabook experience.
Cuis is continuously evolving towards simplicity. Each release is better (i.e. simpler) than the previous one. At the same time, features are enhanced, and any reported bugs fixed. We also adopt recent enhancements from Squeak."
https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev
http://cuis-smalltalk.org/
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