> Making calls and sometimes they get picked up and sometimes not?!? I like that paranoia is the default. Once you get used to it, easy stuff remains easy and

> Making calls and sometimes they get picked up and sometimes not?!? I like that paranoia is the default. Once you get used to it, easy stuff remains easy and hard stuff becomes less scary. > But in-process? If I call a function on an object, I want the compiler to tell me right now if this code makes sense, and the compiler should stop me right away if that code cannot possibly work once deployed. You are going of a tangent; What you are refering to is a matter of typing and compiler help, and not related to the OO paradigm as thought by Alan Key. (If there is a relation, I would be happy to learn it). Put more concretely: I don't see why a Java compiler would be more warning than a typed Smalltalk compiler.