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It was nearly 20 years ago when I first met Smalltalk-80, but I still remember those heady days of infatuation, when I was convinced "this is how programming languages and even operating systems should be". Smalltalk-80 was Mrs Robinson to my idealistic Benjamin Braddock.
Skimming Keith Fieldhouse's article[1] on O'Reilly OnLAMP.com, I had flashbacks to that old fling.
As several other posters have speculated - could a Smalltalk visual environment be a conceptually ideal basis for teaching programming to children?
[1] "Smalltalk for Everyone Else", http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/09/21/learning_smalltalk.html
