Fifteen years ago, we had people who felt the same way about Smalltalk, so they wrote a major enterprise system around it. Many other groups in our organizatio

Fifteen years ago, we had people who felt the same way about Smalltalk, so they wrote a major enterprise system around it. Many other groups in our organization came to rely on these central services, so strange things were done to make it scale. Smalltalk was supposed to be a teaching language - pick an enterprise stack when you want to build something serious, but go ahead an learn on Smalltalk, Forth, Lisp, etc. Understanding other programming languages (especially when they're using different "types" - functional, declarative, imperative) will make you a better programmer.