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Twenty-five years ago, there were commercial C environments that supported interactive coding close to what you got with Lisp or Smalltalk. There was Instant-C,
by wrp 10y ago
Twenty-five years ago, there were commercial C environments that supported interactive coding close to what you got with Lisp or Smalltalk. There was Instant-C, Safe-C, RUN/C, CodeCenter, and a few others. The whole genre died out in the mid 1990s for various reasons. The most popular and powerful system was CodeCenter. People wanted to keep using it, but the developers couldn't handle the increased complexity of supporting C++, so they just gave up around 1996.
- pjmlp 10y agoI only knew the one from Lucid Energize C++ after they moved out of Lisp Machines business. IBM also had a version of C Set++ that used a Smalltalk like image database for C++ code, but they hardly managed to sell it as it was very resource hungry for hardware at the time. It is very hard to find online references to it though, I think I read about it on Dr. Dobbs, back in the day. A video from Energize C++ for those that never saw it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQQTScuApWk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQQTScuApWk