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If I'm not mistaken, this is also an amusing retort to the idea that only statically typed languages can have common refactoring tools.
by taeric 4y ago
If I'm not mistaken, this is also an amusing retort to the idea that only statically typed languages can have common refactoring tools.
- pjmlp 4y agoSpecially since the first IDEs with such features were for Smalltalk and Lisp. Mesa (XDE) and then Mesa/Cedar, have several references Xerox papers, on how those enviroments served as inspiration for their IDE like features, like REPL, typo corrections, debugging, code reloading,...
- taeric 4y agoExactly. Too many folks take "static typing" as the only form of static analysis that can be done. Sometimes the only analysis that can be done on a codebase.