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| From | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Lispification of Forth |
| Date | 2025-05-28 09:52 +0000 |
| Organization | Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien |
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minforth@gmx.net (minforth) writes:
>IIRC in HolonForth it was also possible to access and
>modify code and even sources on the fly, and were
>immediately active after commitment. I don't know how
>Wolf Weijgaard implementd that,
"We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection."
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_software_engineering>
That would certainly solve this particular problem.
In any case, when he demonstrated it, it was very impressive.
>perhaps he was once inspired by Smalltalk.
That's certainly possible. Like Holon, Smalltalk is a system where
you can browse and edit individual words, and edit them at run-time.
- anton
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