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> All in all, a very holistic system to program for.

*FLAME ON* You just blew your credibility buddy *FLAME OFF*

Seriously, though. What makes OS/9 more "holistic" than UNIX? Back when
I was a tadpole "holism" was merely a method of approaching a problem.
It meant looking at the problem as a whole instead of a bunch of little
unconnected peices. The opposite is "reductionism" (not "conventionalism"),
which means breaking the problem down into parts small enough to deal with.

Does this mean that you have to write programs on OS/9 as if it were a
coherent whole, like you have to do with BASIC, or does it merely mean that it
seems to hang together well. I hope you mean the latter, even if that's
a bad misuse of the term.

Structured programming, incidentally, is not a holistic methodology.