I don't quite think the Smalltalk one is fair. Smalltalk-80 definitely went to the extreme with everything-is-an-object, but PG is glossing over the history of

I don't quite think the Smalltalk one is fair. Smalltalk-80 definitely went to the extreme with everything-is-an-object, but PG is glossing over the history of Smalltalk-76 and Smalltalk-72, which betray the actual purpose: "Programming accessible by the everyman should be just as powerful as a 'real' language, not like BASIC."