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Okay, I'll leave this alone, but one last thing, from Making it stick:

I would agree that Smalltalk still (after thirty plus years) seems ahead of its time.

After thirty years, what does it meant to be ahead of your time? There was a little meme going around that I can't remember well enough to find again -- when you explain something and the other person doesn't understand, it's not their problem, it's yours.

That's not entirely fair -- Smalltalk has informed and influenced the computing world a great deal. But it's still worth thinking about. Or to paraphrase myself, as lame as self-quoting is: saying that Smalltalk has achieved every success it deserves would be to damn with faint praise.

Maybe more Smalltalk users should offer opinions on the flaws of the language, since they don't want to hear my opinion. If they think it is without flaws then they lack both imagination and ambition, because there is always more to be done.