This guy likes what he sees in Smalltalk, after coming to it from Java. He has a few qualms too, which is fair. I really liked this bit:

Here is a good article on the advantages of dynamic typing. I am becoming convinced that the “advantage” of static typing is that it provides minor babysitting services for bad programmers. Try writing a Java package that performs all sorts of calculations with int, double, float, and long data types and has to go back and forth between them…. the need to cast, convert, and develop special ways of handling “loss of precision” will drive you nuts.

Heh. I love that phrase: "minor babysitting services".