[em-bee]

hah, i am making the same experience with smalltalk. but i haven't let it destroy me. instead i use it to help me focus on learning languages that actually are different (like haskell).

meanwhile i accept that the languages i use daily like javascript aren't special because of their features but because of their position in the programming ecosystem. knowing smalltalk and common lisp also helps me appreciate the few rare cases where a language is showing a feature that is uncommon in most other languages. javascripts prototype based objects for example.