I ran across this interesting Podcast - it's a regular Ruby On Rails podcast, but this one spopke with Josh Susser, who came out of Xerox (not Parc) with a Smalltalk application background. There's some interesting talk about how Ruby is similar to Smalltalk, and in how it differs. I'd be curious to know whether Josh has looked at Smalltalk recently - I'd love to hear his take on Seaside, for instance