My professor at my former university always told me this great stories about Smalltalk programming and how cool it is. Last month in my software engineering course we got the assignment to convert a Java program to another OO language. Of course, I chose Smalltalk and my professor was right. Smalltalk is a really great language and after diving into Ruby and Smalltalk I just cannot see Java code anymore. It is so damn ugly.

If somebody is interested in learning Smalltalk check out this article from Ron Jeffries.

Oh and if you want to build a fancy webapp with Smalltalk check out the Seaside framework. After hearing a podcast with the creator Avi Bryant I took a quick look at it and was really impressed. Dabble DB uses Seaside and after seeing their demo movie I must admit that you can build really impressive applications with it. There is a nice beginner tutorial here.