[nickik]

The syntax is something, but they could easly have written another parser for sell and make it look very C like. That would have been 100x less work.

Many of the people that worked on Self later worked on Strongtalk, that was bought and is the bases for the current JVM, and yes now everything that was in Self is in the JVM.

So my point is, why not just start where they ended up anyway. In one of David Ungars talks he said something like "they probebly just didn't know what they had". Thats about the only thing that makes sence, but maybe somebody knows more then me.