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> So what does Smalltalk look like? I believe we have a mutual
> acquaintance who used Smalltalk at one point, but I can't remember how
> class methods were called.

Basically three different syntaxes:

Unary operators:
target_expr no_argument_method_identifier
    25 cosine
    iterator next
    array new
    my_list sort

Binary operators:
target_variable + argument
    (where "+" is any string of non-alphanumerics)
    2 + 5
    value $%^ expression
    cursor -> new_position

N-ary operators
target keyword1: arg1 keyword2: arg2 keywordN: argN
    my_array at: 27 put: value
    window drawLineFromX: 3 Y: 7 toX: 13 Y: 27

No dots in there at all.
    
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Darren New 
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                   Who is this Dr. Ibid anyway, 
                  and how does he know so much?