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Smalltalk has simple and strong reflective features. Moreover, it does not make a difference between the developed program and IDE. This means that doing things
by xkriva11 6y ago
Smalltalk has simple and strong reflective features. Moreover, it does not make a difference between the developed program and IDE. This means that doing things like that are very natural and well established in the Smalltalk cultural background.
- grahamlee 6y agoIndeed. Having the whole system in front of you, and knowing how patterns like MVC or Thing-Model-View-Editor encapsulate parts of it, makes it very easy to "reason about" wholesale changes to the system.