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    1 year ago

    For my sins I spend a significant part of my time maintaining smalltalk, and it most definitely is not productive.

    The syntax is ugly and cumbersome when you start chaining messages. Any advantages the evangelists tout are available in modern languages without the baggage of this dead one.

    Today if you want something ‘simple, flexible, interactive’ (interpreted, GC and likely faster) python would almost certainly be a better choice.