Ruby, Python, Eiffel and Smalltalk

[israel raj thomas]

>Do you think that it would be possible to use Python as a Smalltalk
>replacement if an IDE existed that hid some of Python's limitations?

Would it perhaps not be better to use Ruby ?
See below for information and for comparisons of Ruby, Python, Eiffel
and Smalltalk:

http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/articles/index.html
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/talks/introruby/introruby.htm
http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0101/0101b/0101b.htm
http://www.s-direktnet.de/homepages/neumann/rb/download_ruby.html
http://www.s-direktnet.de/homepages/neumann/ruby_en.html
http://www.s-direktnet.de/homepages/neumann/lang_cmp.en.htm
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/ruby.html
http://www.sunworld.com/swol-02-1999/swol-02-regex.html