Patrick Logan on Lobste.rs comes to mind. He talks a lot about using Smalltalk for robust applications. Here's one paper he shared where Smalltalk team killed t

Patrick Logan on Lobste.rs comes to mind. He talks a lot about using Smalltalk for robust applications. Here's one paper he shared where Smalltalk team killed the others in productivity. Unfortunately, I didn't get defect rates on all the teams where Ada or C++ were usually winning in those kinds of comparisons. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0cKsRm-3yprYTR5YTRaRFBfR28/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0cKsRm-3yprYTR5YTRaRFBfR28... He said they mostly just test everything at the interfaces. However, it's simplicity also allowed for powerful tools in code generation, refactoring especially, and so on.