A Celebration for Non-Technical and Technical Readers...Fifty years ago, the smalltalk programming language introduced a groundbreaking vision for programming: a single, uniform language capable of expressing everything from the simplest operations to the most complex systems, much like how natural languages like English can convey both basic messages and profound ideas. While modern programming languages have adopted many of Smalltalk's object-oriented concepts, they've never matched its powerful ideal of a unified language that can describe an entire system from top to bottom, leading to today's fragmented landscape where systems are built from multiple languages and configurations. This fragmentation makes modern systems harder to understand and maintain, highlighting how smalltalk's original vision of uniformity and expressiveness remains relevant and instructive for improving today's programming languages and tools.