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Well, I was responding to specific parent's statement: "Being shackled to existing file-based tools holds you back from improving the software development proce

• bencoman71 10y ago
  Everyone sees the world through their own eyes, filtered by what their past and what know. A peculiar perspective of Smalltalk programmers is to consider that "code in files is dead code". External tools are needed to query it, modify it, compile it. In Pharo you can evaluate... Integer methods first inspect and in different tabs you can see this method's source code, the AST, the compiled bytecode. Or in a similar way we can look at how PLUS is implemented by evaluating (Integer>>#+) inspect Or look at all the methods that use PLUS #+ senders inspect Within Smalltalk, classes and methods are themselves objects. You can operate on them like any other object. They are ALIVE!!! AHAhahaHaaaaa :)