I'm going to learn Smalltalk now.

I've never touched it before, but I hear it's all based on messages and shit. Lots of abstraction and dynamicness and whatnot.
The whole image thing bothers me, though. When I'm done with my application, I'm stuck with a 20mb unreadable, unportable binary blob that can only live inside it's toy VM?
But Alan Kay made it, so it must be good, right?

Why use 5 characters when you could use 13?