DotNet vs. Smalltalk
Historical article · Originally published April 11, 2004; technical details may be outdated.
This is an interesting read. (via Cincom)
here's the end of it:
“Microsoft, are you listening? I am making a concerted effort here to give up my Smalltalk bigotry and you guys aren't helping! What ever happened to "simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible"? Instead, with .NET only trivial tasks seem to be simple, everything else is complex and time consuming.“