Updated Sept 24 2008: extract from old article.

One of the more popular classes in any OO environment is the Process class. The Squeak implementation of Smalltalk even has a special OSProcess plugin to the virtual machine ( VM ) that provides 'eyeball-to-eyeball' OS level support for threads. I keep trying to come up with big XML workloads to test the limits of the stdin/stdout channels.

An interesting development - master Smalltalk developers Stéphane Ducasse, Marcus Denker, Damien Cassou, Lukas Renggli, Alexandre Bergel and Adrian Lienhard have initiated a fork of Squeak called "Pharo". If you know the cast of characters in the Squeak world, this is a huge assortment of Smalltalk talent ... huge.