What I want to see is a statically typed language with an interactive environment in the spirit of Smalltalk or Selfhttps://twitter.com/jadengeller/status/941109606641569793 …
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hrm.... that I'm not sure of - creating new method(s) with a stub implementation is super easy - pausing the debugger on the NotImplementedError is straight-forward - updating / continuing with new code I'm less sure of; that's /sometimes/ possible but I've not done it much.
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Ok, yeah. It's that last item - being able to do it reliably, or even as the main way you write code - that is, for me, the defining Smalltalk experience.
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And then you don't like IntelliJ and you hit break and go up the stack and fix the editor
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And then you remember your actually on a Lisp Machine and drop into the low level debugger and fix the OS.
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Peter, I’d love over a beer sometime to hear about the alternate world where Lisp machines lead to Lisp being the dominate language. Many Lisp ideas caught on. Why not Lisp?
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I consider JS a weird-looking Lisp, in which case it did win.
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In primordial times there were Lisp, Fortran, and assembly. Everything around today is either a weird looking Lisp or a weird looking assembly.
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(... and actual Fortran libraries, still being called by layers upon layers of wrappers)
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