---
title: "Smalltalk glasses"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/26/smalltalk-glasses.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/26/smalltalk-glasses.html"
published: "2004-04-26T15:26:00"
updated: "2004-04-26T15:26:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I read James Robertson's SmallTalk blog . I don't know why really (except that he has sometimes funny and interesting off topic posts). I don't write in SmallTalk (although I've tried it acouple of times). Maybe it's…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Smalltalk glasses

By Roy Osherove April 26, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published April 26, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

I read [James Robertson's SmallTalk blog](http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView). I don't know why really (except that he has sometimes funny and interesting off topic posts). I don't write in SmallTalk (although I've tried it  acouple of times). Maybe it's for the same reason I sometimes put my radio on some Hasidic channel (equivelant to hardcore christian talk radio) - it's interesting to learn about toally different cultures and habits than my own. Fascinating.

So Reading about SmallTalk gives me a perspective outside the Microsoft angle, and that helps look at things sometimes in a more balanced way.

There are also a couple of Linux and Java Blogs I used to follow but not anymore. I think at some point I had to reinstall or reformat some stuff in my OS and the feed data got lost. Anyway - same thing there.

James has written a blog reader in SmallTalk - “[BottomFeeder](http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BottomFeeder)”. And it supports plugins. I wonder how plugins are supported in SmallTalk. What's the SmallTalk equivelant of Reflection, for example? of a DLL? dynamic loading?

Like I said - a totally different world and culture.

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