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Oh boy, and who could forget DWIM. I'm sure if the concept of refactoring existed back then (it didn't; apparently L Peter Deutsch would just throw out your cod
by sedachv 16y ago
Oh boy, and who could forget DWIM. I'm sure if the concept of refactoring existed back then (it didn't; apparently L Peter Deutsch would just throw out your code and start again if he didn't like it) there would be some really cool tools for that too.
- sedachv 16y agoClassic: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:o4niyIQ6_O8J:www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/interlisp/Teitelman-FCJJ1972.pdf+programmers+assistant&hl=en&gl=ca&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShJgKd9Srkt1d1ks_l5JJIQe7Hf4KtT_GVHoHPhmL3MShAYgqrRCr1t1WXoOhg2wa65I7aN244UFvbWAhvJL2IKv0lVTEjSCNGKhWoPVxvniC-gc3go5S7uduKgcMNQrFSGvxYH&sig=AHIEtbT8xcDYio5z9BYceJ7o0c5FXsds4A http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:o4niyIQ6_O8J:w... For all the hating, automating programming is an obvious thing to do (the idea is both trivial and quite profound: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=645338 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=645338), and there are some really cool ideas there (reversible debugging being one).