"Smalltalk is an amazing and legendary language
 divulged to humans by Prometheus. This angered the
 gods enough they condemned him to refactor a big ball
 of Hadean mud for all eternity."
 
First paragraph from http://www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/blogtariAgile/index.rb/Smalltalk/onSTL.rdoc (the Approximity blog).
 
It gets better (or worse) after that :-)
 
--Alan