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Via Patrick Logan, I found a post by Roy Osherove asking, essentially, "what good is Smalltalk", and specifically, how can these languages make me more productive? His questions specifically target libraries and interop, and the situation's pretty bad for any language except Perl and Python.

I think Gordon needs to take anothet look at Smalltalk - VisualWorks supports a wide range of security protocols, COM, CORBA, Web Services, C call outs, and has .NET connectivity to boot. We now support the CE platform - both intel and StrongARM. Over in IBM land, VAST connects to just about all the IBM stuff, WebSphere in particular. Interop is actually pretty good in Smalltalk