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The Morphic framework in Squeak Smalltalk was an excellent example of this idea. Every object essentially had a little REPL+IDE attached to it. The more standar
by stcredzero 9y ago
The Morphic framework in Squeak Smalltalk was an excellent example of this idea. Every object essentially had a little REPL+IDE attached to it. The more standard Smalltalks weren't far off from this either. In just one afternoon, one of my coworkers wrote a utility allowing him to command-click anything in the GUI of our app and open a browser and inspector on it. The reason why he did that, is because he sorely missed an even more powerful utility of this type from his Symbolics Lisp days.