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cratermoonyesterday at 6:46 PM0 repliesview on HN

The best feature of the Smalltalk browser is that there's no such thing as a 'file' in the organization of the code. I get that we have to have files and directories as operating systems use that concept, but it really doesn't make sense to be constrained organize code that way. In particular, tying visibility and module organization to "what file is in what directory" introduces an abstraction useless for source code.