No idea about his programming skills, but I have read Kent Beck's Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns and it is pretty useful and it was often recommended to both

No idea about his programming skills, but I have read Kent Beck's Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns and it is pretty useful and it was often recommended to both Smalltalkers and non-Smalltalkers. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Smalltalk-Best-Practice-Patterns-Kent/dp/013476904X http://www.amazon.com/Smalltalk-Best-Practice-Patterns-Kent/... (it's not a gang-of-four-type patterns book, more like a style guide.)