[thekingofh]

POSIX is similar to what you describe. It's a unified paradigm that wrestles the complexities under one paradigm. UNIX philosophy of each tool doing one thing, and doing it well, combined with the constructs that are provided through shells such as inter-process communication and piping everything has turned out to be quite the solid foundation for software development. I'm not saying we couldn't learn lessons from Pharo, but that I'm not so quick to dump everything else to live inside their bubble just yet.

[agumonkey]

Ok, I won't speak out of my bottom, but from the few that I knew, POSIX used to be a minuscule incarnation of this[1]. But I don't think it's 5% of smalltalk live environment:

- file metaphore is limited, object are marginally better - dynamic language instead of edit/compile/run - infinitely more humane than C/sed/m4/awk/perl hybrid interactions

[1] There's a unix book about how to see it as an IDE, I do believe that long ago, BSD era, things were smaller, cleaner and better integrated. But I still hold my point