April 9, 2011
2:30 a.m.
The "what" is probably another reason why Smalltalk is still around after all these years. Smalltalk does provide powerful developer productivity and did lead the way in a myriad of other areas ... which other languages and/or IDE's have since taken on board.
Im always interested in how much people think is the language ( which is pretty similar to something like ruby ) vs. the environment is responsible for the perceived productivity boosts?