Re:Lack of Speed and Efficiency (Score 1)

I don't know why people describe Smalltalk as inefficient. If this statement is true, then only because Smalltalk runs on a VM and is fully OO - just what Java claims to do. And my experience is that Smalltalk really runs much faster than Java, plus it's quite easy to connect to shared libraries for further speedups (although this of course infringes portability). You can't really compare Smalltalk or Java to C++ when it comes to performance. But develloping applications is much easier in Smalltalk than in C++ - it should not take half the time, plus there should be less bugs because of the great debugging facilities and the easy to learn syntax.