Warren Postma wrote:

> [ I don't like this entirely because Python already has a nice VM to run in
> (the JVM) and the JVM is already more widely ported than the Smalltalk VM.
Really? I suspect that you'll find Squeak alone is on more platforms
than java; let alone other assorted Smalltalks.

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> Voila, Smalltalk-2000, a dialect of Smalltalk-80 that acknowledges that
> Smalltalk has finally developed an alternative to the most unreadable part
> of Smalltalk-80 syntax.
Not meaning to be insulting to you personally, but <yuck>! 'operators'?
Who needs 'operators'. Stick to sending messages; Smalltalk has two
operators, assign and return (have I missed any?) and that is quite enough.

tim