Two good articles about Ruby and Smalltalk

Noel Rappin - Ruby And Its Neighbors: Smalltalk

Noel Rappin continues his series of writing about Ruby and languages that inspire it (if you have not read yet part 1 Ruby And Its Neighbors: Perl) and this time it is about Smalltalk. I liked very much this article as it goes into talking about the innovations that Smalltalk brings to the table, and at the end I almost felt sad that I never used Smalltalk professionally: 

Vinay Keerthi - Some Smalltalk about Ruby Loops

While Noel's article was writting from the persperctive of someone that wrote Smalltalk professionally here Vinay explores the influence of Smalltalk as someone who does not know Smalltalk. It is still refreshing to see how the influence can be identified: