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by berserker-one 3411 days ago
Yes, but who remembers Lisp? Whenever anybody mentions live coding and debugging, they immediately think of Smalltalk. Why? Because Smalltalk's implementation is memorable. Smalltalk's implementation is elegant. Lisp has always been rather clunky.
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> Yes, but who remembers Lisp?

Some.

> Whenever anybody mentions live coding and debugging, they immediately think of Smalltalk.

Funky, I think first of the read-eval-print-loop of Lisp, which enabled live programming around 1960 until today.

Very elegant.