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Recent developments in graphical user interface technology show an increase in complexity, with multiple input and output devices and a freedom for the end-user to be engaged in multiple dialogues simultaneously. Although existing models and programming languages come a long way, they lack the expressive power to describe such complex systems elegantly. We have extended Smalltalk with concurrency, interaction (access and output) protocols, and dialogues for easy specification of concurrent object-oriented (interactive) systems, supporting both delegation and inheritance.
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Bouwman, P., de Bruin, H. (1996). Talktalk. In: Wisskirchen, P. (eds) Object-Oriented and Mixed Programming Paradigms. Focus on Computer Graphics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61062-2_10
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