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I saw this paragraph on the sandbox:

Followup comments lump Smalltalk, Scheme and Lisp together and bash them all. Choice quote: "One can read Learning Perl and have a basic grasp on the language in a very short period of time. I don't think the same can be said of Smalltalk or Scheme, at least not for your average hacker."

Ok... now, go look at the periodic table of perl operators. Then, recall that Smalltalk has 5 reserved words (true, false, super, self, nil) and 2 operators (return and assignment). The syntax of Smalltalk fits on a 3x5 card - and that's too complex for the average programmer to pick up quickly, while Perl - with its mass of complexity - can be? I'm not knocking Perl here - a lot of people make great use of it. What I am knocking is the notion that it's somehow simpler than Smalltalk. That's just silly.