I learned to program in Dolphin SmallTalk at a small business run out of barn next to a bunch of soybean farms. While probably not the best language to run a pr

I learned to program in Dolphin SmallTalk at a small business run out of barn next to a bunch of soybean farms. While probably not the best language to run a production application with (because of the tininess of the community), I agree that it's a great language to learn on. I think the SmallTalk development environment is one of the closest things available to what Bret Victor was talking about in this article: http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/ http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/. The IDE integration and live coding experience is fantastic. I really miss this feature in other languages/IDEs. It's also amazing how the refactoring engine in Dolphin is as good/better for a dynamically typed language than many IDEs for statically typed languages.