Smalltalk
Proper noun
Meaning
Smalltalk
(computer languages) An object-oriented, dynamically-typed, reflective programming language.
Examples
However, I am no big fan of Smalltalk either, even though it compares very favourably with most programming systems today (I don't like any of them, and I don't think any of them are suitable for the real programming problems of today, whether for systems or for end-users).
I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby.
An example would be the meta-object protocol in Smalltalk and CLOS that gives developers run time access to the class objects and enables them to dynamically redefine the structure of the knowledge base even at run time.
ANSI Smalltalk has been the standard language reference since 1998. citation Two of the currently popular Smalltalk implementation variants are descendants of those original Smalltalk-80 images.
As a result, the code to serialize an object varies by Smalltalk implementation.
At one point a version of Smalltalk was implemented in Self.