...an object ever did anything but obfuscate Smalltalk and give people warm fuzzies for being...

...well, and neither does Smalltalk.  The difference is that, in Smalltalk, at least everything is...

...pull a Java or (worse yet) a Smalltalk and try to cram *everything* into the...

...c++0x/d/c#/ python/ruby/php/smalltalk/functional language like closures. Soon 99.9...

...to define any useful constraints in practice.  Smalltalk makes this a tiny bit better because...

...The language sounds like a cross between Smalltalk and C, but with better concurrency support...

...expert people coming from the optimization of Smalltalk VM, produces very slow programs compared to...

...is not.

btw, in dynamic languages like smalltalk/ruby those meta classes are mutable so...

...above. here's one model (used in smalltalk)
class Foo {
int a;
void foo();
}
the...

...cores.  If you wanted to implement, say, Smalltalk or Objective-C you could use this...