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FWIW, Visual_Age_ (not to be confused with VS), the ancestor to Eclipse, was originally Smalltalk based before being rewritten in Java.

Also working in terms of an image instead of files freaks people out. It isolates you from all the file-centric tooling of unix.

Thx for the responses. I just watched "What Killed Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby, Too" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3iRjKj7C0 pretty interesting