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by whitten 452 days ago
What issues do the lisp and smalltalk repls make easier to debug ?
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You can inspect any expression, break into the debugger mid-execution, change the code, whatever code you feel like, redo the execution after applying the changes for example.

The ultimate redo-eval-loop, with almost zero downtime.

They are Jupyter notebooks on steroids.

...and start another debugger on any expression(s) you like. This is a super-useful feature.

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