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Yeah, you could supposedly upgrade all the software on a lisp systems without having to restart anything (assuming the developers implemented the various redefi

• johnisgood 5y ago
  Ahh, how is StumpWM doing? The tiling window manager written in Common Lisp. You could hack it while it was running. I never got around to try. :(
• jdougan 5y ago
  You can definitely do that in an image-based Smalltalk system, it is necessary to support the code browsers. I imagine the lispm devs had the same reason.
  • jhgb 5y ago
    What I had in mind was that this is also necessary to support an on-disk object database.
    • jdougan 5y ago
      That can be trickier, but Gemstone/S did it transactionally.