[dba-Tech] A new language

Is the creation of a new language by Google called Strongtalk
(http://www.strongtalk.org/) really new or is it just a blast from the past.
It emulates much of Smalltalk but now it is supposed to be web based,
extremely fast and fully compilable. 

It will be interesting to see if it can challenge the incredible speed of
multi-tasking, multi-core, multi-threading node.js (http://nodejs.org/) for
server side performance but I would think it is safe to say its nature will
be similar to Java.

Jim