Smalltalk appreciation thread

I had a quick look into Smalltalk today. Shit totally rocks, despite the fact it was created in the 80s.

Why can't modern OO languages get this one thing right? Everything must be an object. No exceptions.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)#Common_Type_system_.28CTS.29
C# has a unified type system. This unified type system is called Common Type System (CTS)^[7]

A unified type system implies that all types, including primitives such as integers, are subclasses of the System.Object class.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=csharp&lang2=vw
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=csharp&lang2=mzscheme