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- no flat file format really for humans
- dev happens within Smalltalk environment, which is nice, but harder to integrate with other systems
- no access modifiers; hard to say what public interface is
- no direct field access; can't say "o x" to get o's x field
- no a[i] array access operator; have to say "a elementAt: i" or whatever
- no types on variables, methods
- metaclasses confuse everybody
- commercial versions added namespaces (packages)
- I wonder if we need arrays vs lists? Is #(a b c) the right list syntax?
- Is $a decent char literal syntax?
- should have trees as default data structure
- var scoping rules seemed odd to me; will have to look at that again
The Java VM is still the right target but might be fun to start out having an interpreter written in Java.