[p_ing]

> Moated fiefdoms they are, scattered within the boundaries of their operating system.

Yet highly preferred over CLI applications to the common end user.

CLI-only would have stunted the growth of computing.

[anthk]

I'd love something like the Emacs approach. Multi-UI's. Graphical, but with an M-x (or anything else) command line prompt in order to do UI tasks scriptable, from within the application or from the outside.

[skydhash]

Emacs is smalltalk with characters instead of pixels.

[igouy]

Smalltalk does characters and pixels.