My rant [I'm so sorry I can't resist]:  Reading all the rants of long-term 
Smalltalkers who fear about the pureness or simplicity of "their" language 
is kind of funny.  Smalltalk shall be a progressive language IMHO and 
staying with the old looks like a contradiction to me.  IMHO the "newbie" 
is a very valuable source of information which is unbiased compared to 
"experts".

Furthermore (as a pragmatic programmer) I always become very suspicious 
when I hear "best" or "perfect".  This then sounds like a challenge :-)

I'd like to close my mouth with the question whether the persistence in the 
existing language isn't perhaps based on the same feeling other language's 
programmers have when they detect Smalltalk: I don't want to through away 
my knowledge and learn something different?


bye

[PS if somebody feels offended its probably because English isn't my native 
language.  I'll then explain this more polite in German to you :-]
--
Stefan Matthias Aust  //  ...dancing on the Darkside of the Moon