"If you do this the right way you could build a Smalltalk the way it should have been" it all depends on the details of "the way it should have been" and "the

"If you do this the right way you could build a Smalltalk the way it should have been" it all depends on the details of "the way it should have been" and "the right way". which I believe was the grandparents original point - the devil is in the details. So far all we have is lots of hype and a video or two. I personally believe the whole "multitide of dsls" angle, which is where Mr.Fowler is coming from, is a load of fluff wrapped around a genuine engineering principle (linguistic abstraction - see SICP). The fluff is the "enterprisey" part.