Editing VisualWorks (section)

== Smalltalk basics ==
[[Smalltalk]] is a pure [[object oriented programming language]], which means the only way to get something to happen within Smalltalk is by sending messages to objects. VisualWorks uses the Smalltalk-80 language as standard, but comes with its own set of classes and methods. So even basic classes, like Object, differ from those in other Smalltalk-80 [[Integrated development environment|IDEs]] like [[Squeak]] and [[Dolphin Smalltalk]]. The illustrative examples here work in VisualWorks Smalltalk, but may not work in other Smalltalks because the classes and/or methods may differ.