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Yes I agree on the Smalltalk point. I think Squeak was at one point the very future of REPL-like development and hence why I think the article doesn't really go
by agentgt 9y ago
Yes I agree on the Smalltalk point. I think Squeak was at one point the very future of REPL-like development and hence why I think the article doesn't really go into how REPLs could be better and how they aren't really that much better than other development tools (ie IDE + debugger,... I mention this in other comments).
I had no idea that common lisp had image saving! I only used the Carnegie Mellon one in college.... its been a long time.
- lispm 9y ago> I had no idea that common lisp had image saving! Lisp has image saving since around 1960...
- agentgt 9y agoI probably did at one point know this as I did use it in college but for some reason forgot it (we are talking 15 plus years) given that is apparently how you distribute executable lisp code... IIRC though I hated image saving when it came to Squeak aka Smalltalk so I'm not sure if I did like that.
- lispm 9y ago> given that is apparently how you distribute executable lisp code LispWorks can: * save images * create optimized images/applications for delivery, using a treeshaker for removing unused stuff * can generate Mac applications with the usual ceremony/ application bundles * can generate shared libraries which can be linked into programs written in C or similar Some other compilers can generate standalone C code doing whole-program compilation. For example mocl or some inhouse compilers used by companies.