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Welcome to the Slate project (http://slate.tunes.org/) wiki. This is a place for ad hoc documentation for the project. Recent changes are available via RSS (http://slate.tunes.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss).

Slate is a new "clean slate" variant of Smalltalk that seeks to incorporate as many improvements in language and environment design as possible without radically altering the way that Smalltalk is used and understood.

Table of contents

1 About Slate 2 Documentation 3 Getting Involved 4 Goals 5 Plans 6 Design Issues 7 Fun Stuff 8 More

About Slate

• Introduction to Slate
• The License
• Screenshots
• Supported Platforms
• Downloading Slate
• Installing Slate
• Using Slate

Documentation

• Frequently-Asked Questions: the FAQ.
• Reference material.
• Tutorials.
• Recommended Reading
• Cookbook-style recipes.
• Design Patterns notes.
• FFI howto.
• Debugging howtos.

Getting Involved

• The Mailing List
• Slate Users
• IRC
• How to submit code
• Code Contribution Suggestions
• Non-code Contribution Suggestions
• How to make Donations
• Follow RSS feeds (http://slate.tunes.org/SlateFeeds.opml) (OPML (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPML))

Goals

• The Roadmap
• The User Interface system
• Feature Requests
• Current Projects and who is involved where

Plans

• Release Plans

Design Issues

• Intermediate Representation
• Implementing Concurrency
• Distributed Computing

Fun Stuff

• Trivia

More