I can see some of the charm of 'images' such as used by smalltalk.
Or maybe the appeal of glue languages like Bash or (one style of) Perl. It is very nice to have the ability to treat arbitrary programs like libraries for your program. (Unfortunately, because of the GNU/BSD split - among other things - this style of programming is also completely brittle. One non-standard flag, and boom.)
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I can see some of the charm of 'images' such as used by smalltalk.
Or maybe the appeal of glue languages like Bash or (one style of) Perl. It is very nice to have the ability to treat arbitrary programs like libraries for your program. (Unfortunately, because of the GNU/BSD split - among other things - this style of programming is also completely brittle. One non-standard flag, and boom.)