[emodendroket]

Well, I suppose that's compelling if you're one of the many programmers trying to decide if you will implement your project in Ruby or C.

[projektfu]

Yeah, more modern Smalltalks are able to put things in various namespaces so they don't conflict but still generally work as expected. In Smalltalk, adding methods doesn't weigh down a class like in other languages, because method lookup is on-the-fly like in Objective-C, not precalculated and placed in a table.