Its not a joke. I would really like to have a full smalltalk support in browser, up to placing smalltalk in <script language="smalltalk"> .... It is great that JavaScript is prototype-based. And it is shame that its having such poor C-like syntax. What is interesting, that people exploiting a message passing with continuation and blocks-like programming style in javascript, which closely mimics smalltalk semantics. For instance, this is an example from JQuery library: $("div.title", wizard).each(function(index) { $(this) .next() .children(":button") .filter(".next, .previous") .click(function() { wizard.changeAccordion("activate", index + ($(this).is(".next") ? 1 : -1)) }); }); Looks familiar to us, isnt? And totally alien for C world :) This could be easily translated to smalltalk, to something like: (JQuery select: 'div.title') do: [:each :index | ((each next children: ':button') filter: '.next, .previous') click: [ wizard changeAccordion: ... ] yeah.. keyword selectors require wrapping with (), to do continuation, but still, its much more clean than js code. I remember discusison about introducing a special syntax which would allow to use continuations for keyword selectors, without need of wrapping then into parethesis. So, code like: ((self foo: bar) baz: 1) jump could be written as: self foo: bar | baz: 1 | jump which makes it even more clean and convenient to type, since you don't have to get back into beginning of message to put opening paren. -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.