In Kay's Smalltalk, humans never saw code like that in the article: they defined classes, variables and methods through a graphical interface. The verbose synt

In Kay's Smalltalk, humans never saw code like that in the article: they defined classes, variables and methods through a graphical interface. The verbose syntax was for computers to read, when you saved code on one machine and loaded it on another. Humans only had to write this stuff after Gnu released a text-only interpreter; the subset of Smalltalk syntax that was originally intended for human use is pretty clear.