To me Smalltalk has the same kind of beauty to it as C, it's pure and simple. They both allow me to keep the entire language in my head, which means I can spend

To me Smalltalk has the same kind of beauty to it as C, it's pure and simple. They both allow me to keep the entire language in my head, which means I can spend all my energy on solving real problems. And the interactivity is awesome once you wrap your head around it. If you haven't experienced it, you most likely won't see the point since you assume much of what it enables is impossible. I'm still not sold on the image-based dev cycle, Common Lisp allows the same level of interactivity and even more power without giving up files. They killed it by trying to keep selling it for profit at a time when free alternatives started appearing.