In the article, I linked to: http://techbeacon.com/how-learning-smalltalk-can-make-you-better-developer http://techbeacon.com/how-learning-smalltalk-can-make-yo

In the article, I linked to: http://techbeacon.com/how-learning-smalltalk-can-make-you-better-developer http://techbeacon.com/how-learning-smalltalk-can-make-you-be.... This is where you'll see an example of Smalltalk code. Many programmers obsess over performance, but the fact is, in today's computing world, performance is a non-issue in most situations. That's why Python, PHP, Ruby, and Perl are so useful and popular. That's why Erlang/Elixir absolutely rock for concurrent systems. That's why Smalltalk is used commercially around the world. Performance is not the be-all, end-all of computing.