Smalltalk Productivity Explained

I posted on the code bloat of a Java/Struts weblog implementation (vs. a Smalltalk/Seaside version last week. Now Chris Double points us to an in-depth comparison by Bill Clementson. This comparison explains, in a nutshell, why Smalltalk is so much more productive than Java - the sheer difference in code volume. Simple writing all that extra code is going to take longer.