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by gumby 1574 days ago
Time travel to the late 70s and use the lisp machine debugger.

I always felt the drive towards mouse-driven tools in the PARC world (InterLisp/SmallTalk/CedarMesa) was actually a regression because of the loss of history ("how the hell did I get here?")
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pjmlp 1574 days ago
They also had a proper REPL, and the reason I stay with Java and .NET ecosystems, is because they are the closest we can get back to the Xerox experience, after the UNIX divergence.
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