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> what Lisp developers have had since the early '80s We absolutely did not have a globally, network-accessible terminal with pay-as-you-go computer time. I ha

by geocar 8y ago

> what Lisp developers have had since the early '80s We absolutely did not have a globally, network-accessible terminal with pay-as-you-go computer time. I have no experience or interest in repl.it, but I think you're understating things somewhat.

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daveFNbuck 8y ago
The article seems to be saying that the advantages of repl.it are the advantages of a REPL-based development platform, not remote access: > With programmers growing up today being used to instant and interactive programming like Repl.it, Jupyter Notebooks, serverless compute, and others, it doesn't seem so outlandish to imagine a post-IDE world.
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pjmlp 8y ago
Lisp Machines and Xerox PARC workstations had network access. In fact, parts of Ethernet protocol were researched at Xerox.
- lispm 8y ago
  Access, but usually they were not serving their IDE to the outside and there was only one active user per machine.
  - pjmlp 8y ago
    True, but you could have document parts which were actually remote, no?
    - lispm 8y ago
      sure, but how is this related to a global system where you login and get your IDE from? With a Lispm you already have your IDE locally running.
      - pjmlp 8y ago
        Ah ok.
Filligree 8y ago
What you did have was Symbolics, and I think this still falls somewhat short of that experience.