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Wish it credited Light Table as inspiration (http://lighttable.com/ http://lighttable.com/) :/ Even the term "instarepl" is taken from LT's creator, Chris Grang

by fedess 10y ago

Wish it credited Light Table as inspiration (http://lighttable.com/ http://lighttable.com/) :/ Even the term "instarepl" is taken from LT's creator, Chris Granger. Of course LT's inspiration is Smalltalk's IDE.

azeirah 10y ago
"Of course ..." is that really true though? From the very beginning, the very first demo, Chris Granger mentions that he got inspired by Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle demo. He mentions it in the first blog post as well :p No mentions of smalltalk Chris Granger's first video on LightTable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XUWpze_A_s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XUWpze_A_s Chris Granger's first blog post on LightTable: http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/12/light-table-a-new-ide-concept/ http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/12/light-table-a-new-id...
- fedess 10y ago
  Hm... I seem to remember him saying something about it, but (of course!) i might be wrong.
- e12e 10y ago
  Ah, but Bet Victor draws inspiration from Smalltalk, Logo and Hypercard : http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/ http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/
gw 10y ago
Everything is a remix ;) Light table certainly was my inspiration for the instaREPL. DrRacket inspired the notion of running code in the same process as the editor. The code completion system comes straight from CIDER. I could go on and on. Please don't interpret the lack of a mention as a slight. We're all remixing each others' work.