Here's Gilad Bracha's Newspeak talk from ESUG 2008 - follow the link for more details, but here's Gilad's short description of Newspeak:
Newspeak is a new programming language in the tradition of Self and Smalltalk. Newspeak is highly dynamic and reflective - but designed to support modularity and security. It supports both object-oriented and functional programming.
You can see Gilad's slides (pdf) here; click on the image below to watch the video:

You can also watch it on Vimeo:
Gilad Bracha on Newspeak from James Robertson on Vimeo.
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