On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:45:23 -0800, Aaron Reichow <revaaron at bitquabit.com>  
wrote:

> That was back in 2000, when I was taking a Java class that was mostly  
> about writing GUIs in Swing for my sophomore year of college. I had been  
> using Squeak for about a year, having taught myself Smalltalk over the  
> previous year.  Like most who take an earnest look at Smalltalk, I was  
> hooked, and Smalltalk had replaced Python as my favorite language, where  
> it's remained since. No small feat for a language enthusiast during a  
> time where there are a lot of contenders, some of which that are full  
> featured and fun to code in, languages like Io, Factor, Ruby, Python,  
> etc.

I've had that problem for 15 years. And I imagine some here have had it  
for more than 30. I'm a language junkie myself. It's just weird to watch  
these other languages rise and fall after learning Smalltalk.