Smalltalk

“the image model is a tough pill to swallow and I never wrapped my head around it”

“All variations of Smalltalk have become my favorite way to program ever since.”

“Learning Smalltalk, and practicing it heavily for 20 years was probably the single best thing I learned in programming”

“The development experience while using the environment, the debugger, edit-compile-continue, REPL with suggestions for typos, dynamic code loading.”

“Pity that with all of this, many still never tried what actually means to use Smalltalk.”

“it had a similar visual feel (you could click on a class and create an instance of it that then floated around), but it was far from pure OOP”

“I really loved it. What I admired most was that you “lived” in your program.”

“it brings me back to the days of working in Smalltalk image where I can tweak my development IDE as I go along”

“It's incredibly pure - almost all of the syntax is "send this message to this object"”

“one thing I love about Smalltalk is being able to inspect the code as it's running”

“smalltalk and erlang are so interesting because they model the idea of small computers so differently”

“All languages that multiply your insight into the nature of computer programming”

“Smalltalk is not homoiconic, and it's REPL experience is equivalent (I'd argue somewhat better, but that's mostly a tooling thing”

“I have fond memories of bricking my Smalltalk environment several times trying to get instance behaviour working”

“where the entire IDE (or really the whole operating system) could have open heart surgery done on it while it was running”

“The easiest syntax to copy if you’re looking for a high level language is Smalltalk.”

“The only truly OO programming languages that I know of are SmallTalk, Obj-C, and Ruby”

“meant to be used with source files and to that end uses its own more sane source file syntax”

“The best feature of the Smalltalk browser is that there's no such thing as a 'file' in the organization of the code.”

“I worked as a Smalltalk developer for a few years, and it spoiled to such an extent”

“There is quite a bit of worthwhile research done in Smalltalk-related languages”

“A bunch of such systems have been built over the years: e.g. Common Lisp + Comemrcial Tooling, Smalltalk Systems.”

“A Smalltalk-style OO language feels like a better base layer for apps than C.”

“Very small methods that function as standalone compilation units, enabling extremely fast compilation.”

“Smalltalk was (and still is in some places) successful because of its portability, flexibility”

“high level abstractions of programming languages like Smalltalk, Lisp, or even Haskell”

“Pretty sure ST-80 doesn’t even mandate recovery features, which is pretty scary”

“The thing (for me) about Smalltalk was the thought to code ratio. It was awesome.”

“The programming environment was fantastic, better than anything I have seen before or since.”

“Smalltalk is the ultimate orthogonal language - everything is consistent.”

“Just restore unsaved changes when you launch the same image again. That's robust not fragile.”

“Ruby doesn't have what makes Smalltalk great, the image-based development model.”

“it's incredibly easy to brick your system when it's all a network of objects”

“Image-based systems are no reason to abandon good engineering practices.”

“it also was/is one of the major impediments for Smalltalk, at least after the mid 1980s.”

“Smalltalk didn't understand that. The syntax is worse than python IMO”

“Syntax-wise Smalltalk is a huge set back and step back compared to Ruby”

“The image concept, in my opinion, is what really limited Smalltalk's appeal and distribution.”

“found the Smalltalk way of working in the running environment to be very programmer efficient”

“the most impressive part of Smalltalk ecosystem is the structure of the image”