My exposure to SmallTalk has basically been from professors who always referenced it as great and a pillar of OOP back in the day at university. Of course I was

My exposure to SmallTalk has basically been from professors who always referenced it as great and a pillar of OOP back in the day at university. Of course I was a crontrarian student who was drinking the functional cool aid at the time so my response was usually "lol OOP" or something similarly clever. I investigated it a bit and my main takeaway was "ellegant but slow". Being the mature student I was I then proceeded to read up on OOP in detail for the following semester and changed from "lol OOP" to "yeah, yeah but it's so much better in Eiffel". I'm very thankful that I've since turned from a flamewar-triggerhappy person into a very pragmatic person that uses whatever language gets the job done while trying to find the value and neatness in each of them :)