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Not only do they know and leverage Smalltalk, but they're also pretty darn good C programmers. And assembler writers. And XWindows programmers. And JVM implementors. The list goes on. Buried in the Smalltalk/X image you can download and develop products for free, is a Lisp interpreter, and a Prolog interpreter too.
It has been said that Smalltalk's wonderful. C is powerful. And those that can do both have a synthesis at their hands that enables great and cool things. eXept's Smalltalk is the single Smalltalk I have ever used that really "enables" someone who is both comfortable with C and Smalltalk.
The other Smalltalk's may provide interoperability tools such as the VW DLLCC stuff or Squeak's pluggable primitives and FFI. But they still fall into the "you mere mortals pay no attention to that man behind the curtains fold". The whole premise (whether intended or not) of the Virtual Machine is that a "few brave souls" will create a virtual computer, which is better than the real one, so that the rest of us don't have to deal with it and can just hang out in our blissful little Smalltalk world known as the "image."
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