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by agumonkey 2709 days ago
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