Klaus D. Witzel wrote:

> Me thinks that the Smalltalk community is healthy and vibrant--it is  
> "just" a community form one would not expect for Ruby or Python or 
> Perl,  etc. To get impression of my impression take a look at what 
> *actually*  happened during the *recent* months:

Why would one not expect this community for Ruby or Python or Perl? 
Could you please explain what you mean, for this puzzles me ...