The final comments about Scheme seem like a digression from the thesis. Scheme is almost the antithesis of Smalltalk, in that only an essential core language is

The final comments about Scheme seem like a digression from the thesis. Scheme is almost the antithesis of Smalltalk, in that only an essential core language is provided. I suppose she's arguing that "good is somewhere between Smalltalk and Scheme" but the closing came across as offtopic, as if she were surprised to find that a language famed for its minimalism was actually minimalist.