A side note... Smalltalk has a rich, deep, and beautiful class hierarchy. I looked at it. I was blown away that Smalltalk's classes are richer, more beautiful, more understandable, and all-in-all better thought out than any class hierarchy in Java, .Net, or any other O-O system I've seen.

I found myself writing "better" code in Smalltalk than I ever have in Java. I found myself refactoring early and often. Then I started asking myself why I was writing better code. I realized that Smalltalk is that a language of the gods, I was in Mt. Olympus, and I was doing as the others before me did: coding more thoughtfully.

Smalltalk is an amazingly well designed system/environment/language. It's clean, clear, precise, understandable, and in general done right. I found that I was doing things the way other Smalltalk programmers do things. I was following the example and lead of the amazing folks who wrote the beautiful classes I was browsing and learning from.

Definitely read the rest of the post as well.