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Via Planet Perl, Curtis Poe asks, "Why not Smalltalk?" in the sense of, "If you're so smart, how come you ain't rich?"

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."

You gotta grant Perl this: You can't make a fancy poster out of six keywords or a pair of parentheses.