The thing I love about smalltalk is that the language grammar has about 7 rules in it and everything else is defined as passing messages to objects. Want to ad

The thing I love about smalltalk is that the language grammar has about 7 rules in it and everything else is defined as passing messages to objects. Want to add a method? You send the class a message and pass it a block with the method contents. Want define a class? You send the parent class the subclass message. Want an if statement? You evaluate a Boolean in a block and send it the ifTrue or ifFalse messages. It means that sometimes it reads a bit strange, but there's a purity to it I love. Plus if you don't like it you can just define your own methods - for example I once did an (unfinished) library for GNU Smalltalk that gave it a more traditional if statement and loop constructs.