"Smalltalker" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1989, Byte, volume 14, page 273",
          "text": "Questions and answers for novice Smalltalkers",
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          "ref": "1993, Object Magazine, volume 3, COOT, Incorporated, page 28",
          "text": "Smalltalkers will thus gleefully make ad hominum attacks by noting the folly of large C++ projects (“Small is beautiful” is the appropriate rallying cry), but C++ers will often counter by pointing out the lack of disciplined development by some Smalltalkers.",
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          "ref": "1995, Dr. Dobb’s Developer Update, volume 2",
          "text": "Even though the conference seemed heavy on Smalltalk (including invited speeches by noted Smalltalkers David Thomas and Adele Goldberg) and, to a lesser degree, Eiffel (with Bertrand Meyer), C++ still managed to squeeze its way into the conference.",
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          "ref": "1998, Michael Knapik, Jay Johnson, Developing Intelligent Agents for Distributed Systems: Exploring Architecture, Technologies, and Applications, McGraw-Hill, page 314",
          "text": "There is, however, a core of developers who have been producing fully OO applications for years: Smalltalkers.",
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          "ref": "1998, Sherman R. Alpert, Kyle Brown, Bobby Woolf, The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion, Addison-Wesley, page 8",
          "text": "Smalltalkers feel comfortable using Smalltalk's reflective capabilities to build and integrate new programming tools into the Smalltalk environment.",
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          "ref": "2001, Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, Chet Hendrickson, Extreme Programming Installed (The XP Series), Addison-Wesley, page 250",
          "text": "A humorous look at Java and its programmers. As Smalltalkers, we found it almost enough to make Java tolerable.",
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          "ref": "2001, Software Development, volume 9, Miller Freeman, Inc., page 45",
          "text": "Smalltalkers of the World Unite! Although it’s now a long time since I did anything with it, I nominate Smalltalk—I still haven’t come across anything quite like it for being able to transfer thoughts into computer code.",
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          "ref": "2004, David West, Object Thinking, Microsoft Press, page 37",
          "text": "Disagreement between Smalltalkers and C++ers gains added interest from the fact that both claim to be the direct heirs of another, older, language, SIMULA.",
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          "ref": "2008, Ed Burns, Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers: Riding the IT Crest, McGraw Hill Professional, page 36",
          "text": "Adrian: […] Now, there are a few people who—Smalltalkers prior to that—who bring across this whole message-passing way of understanding what is actually syntactically fairly similar on the surface.",
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          "ref": "2021, Robert Nystrom, Crafting Interpreters, Genever Benning",
          "text": "Lispers famously claim their language “has no syntax”, while Smalltalkers proudly show that you can fit the entire grammar on an index card.",
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          "ref": "2023, Norman Ramsey, Programming Languages: Build, Prove, and Compare, Cambridge University Press, page 708",
          "text": "Smalltalkers sometimes refer to an action “to answer,” which is analogous to the action “to return” found in other languages.",
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        "One who uses the Smalltalk programming language."
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          "ref": "1993, Object Magazine, volume 3, COOT, Incorporated, page 28",
          "text": "Smalltalkers will thus gleefully make ad hominum attacks by noting the folly of large C++ projects (“Small is beautiful” is the appropriate rallying cry), but C++ers will often counter by pointing out the lack of disciplined development by some Smalltalkers.",
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