J J wrote:

> Java is surely "inconsistancy all the way down".  

ROFL

> I'm sure the Howard Aiken quote is familiar to all smalltalkers: "Don't 
> worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, 
> you'll have to ram them down people's throats."

Yup, and we Smalltalkers usually are way to polite to do this ;-)

> What smalltalk also needs is a killer app.  Maybe seaside will be that 
> killer app if the inferier language crowd doesn't steal it first.

Seaside is certainly the killer app in the website application area 
demonstrating a viable alternative to scripting.

Another one could be Sophie (OK, I'm one of the developers ;-) ).

> I hope someone somewhere finds something I said useful. :)

Thank you, thank you, thank you :-)

Michael