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I don't really see the point to coming up with smalltalk environments that put you back in the Visual Studio mode. Converting smalltalk to C# might make sense in some porting sense but not in any real development sense. The same is true for the S# work I have seen so far. I mean the real attractivness of smalltalk is the smalltalk "world" not the syntax. People don't get that, syntax is something any programmer can pick up in a few days but the smalltalk "world" is truly unique and extremely productive compared to the edit-complie-link world of the {} world.