Yeah - that matches closely my own feelings. Fortunately at this point tooling can make it sorta automated / convenient to just adhere 
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I don't think anyone here ignores that there were problems with the Smalltalk approach, or is saying "everything was better back then"...
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I think the smalltalk approach failed on the merits. I don't want it today personally.
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You don't want what part of it? An image-based environment? I can agree with that. Immediate and rich feedback OTOH...
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Immediate feedback is great. But can be done without source stored in an image.
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I think we disagree on Smalltalk's strengths being the use of an image-based format to store programs, then.
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To me Smalltalk's strengths are much more in the language's semantics and integrated set of reflective tooling w/ immediate feedback.
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I'm a fan of those. Ruby has a good amount of the language level semantics. Someone should build a class browser for ruby!
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IMHO lexical scoping at the top level isn't very compatible with the kind of editors Smalltalk had.
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