Can This Man Spark a Renaissance for the Smalltalk Programming Language?
&gt; Once inured to the clumsy use of files and folders and lifeless, non-dynamic programming methods, once they grow emotionally and intellectually attached to their file-based tools and infrastructure, they are incapable of appreciating any other way to do things.<p>What bugs me about smalltalk advocacy is the complete dismissal of the existing files-based tools. Even the simple  version control for the personal use (log, diff and revert) is worth keeping the files for. And I cannot imagine how would I do multi-user version control, code reviews, sharing libraries between projects if all I have is a single &quot;image&quot;.