> There... are no files. My guess is you mean something like — usually, Smalltalk software is written in a Smalltalk IDE (editor, code browser, incremental com

> There... are no files. My guess is you mean something like — usually, Smalltalk software is written in a Smalltalk IDE (editor, code browser, incremental compiler, debugger, cache), instead of being written by editing plain text files with a text editor? Of course, if you really wanted, you could edit a plain text file with a text editor, compile and run. I wrote fact.st with GNU nano. $ cat fact.st Stdio stdout nextPutAll: 100 factorial printString; nextPut: Character lf.! SmalltalkImage current snapshot: false andQuit: true! $ bin/pharo --headless Pharo10-SNAPSHOT-64bit-502addc.image fact.st 93326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381621468592963895217599993229915608941463976156518286253697920827223758251185210916864000000000000000000000000