Ruby and Pearl look very ugly to me.��
Programming languages are primarily personal preference.��
Pharo advantages to me at least are far more than live image, its live coding which by the way is different from live image, the IDE tools, the factor that is all Pharo objects even when you do assembly coding inside Pharo , the libraries of course and last but not least the community.��
I could name also thousands more advantages that I have found in the implementation that I really like as well others I don't. Devil , as they say, is in the details. Details are everything , generalisations have little meaning.
Lovely article Sven , keep them coming. I think Pharo would definitely benefit from a cookbook working as a database where pharo coders can use to find example code the easy way.
But even articles like this can help a lot, I just wish that there was a Pharo wiki to keep these links and see them buried in Pharo news. ��