One ST person once said he was sure his 6 year old could write in Smalltalk because it was so simple.

After 9 years of working with ST I love its OOT elegance but to call wrting ST code simple proved to me that this particular person lived on another planet despite having a body on this one.

I can follow Java a lot easier than I can follow Smalltalk but I prefer to write in Smalltalk.

And although starting out decades ago with COBOL I still write with it today because it does actually force some degree of self documentation but I think the same comments about Smalltalk's simplicity also apply to the simplicity of Cobol (grin).

Cheers

Doug