Indeed. "everything was better in the 60s" (or 80s, or 90s) ignores what sucked about those solutions.
"integrated set of reflective tooling with immediate feedback" doesn't seem to depend on this very much?
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Unless your scope is first-class and names there late-bound, you can't change it without VM hacks (e.g.: what Chrome debugger does)
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Ruby `binding` and hacks like Binding.of_caller get you there.
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It doesn’t.I suggest you watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZKr2KRrID8&index=15&list=PLCGAAdUizzH0-aox_bwLBztVCUhRhR7yd … or at least look at the slides http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/talks/ModSTJourney.pdf …
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Another branch of the Smalltalk family tree is Gemstone, which turns the image into a transactional, multiuser database with migration, etc.
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