Hypothesis: the best environments for interactive and incremental development must have semantics that are independent of the order in which code is written. This is true of Excel, largely true of Smalltalk, but not of Lisps or the various scripting language + notebook systems.
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Replying to @avibryant
Interestingly, this is true of https://beta.observablehq.com/ which has a great notebook metaphor that's independent of order.
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Replying to @josh_marcus
Yes, it was thinking about why I liked @observablehq so much better than previous notebooks that prompted this tweet.
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