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by yaxu 4875 days ago
Heh, well I'm happy to help with this situation, wikipedia might be a good place to start.

Are there good examples of live programming literature that doesn't primarily use media generation in its examples? That might be part of the problem - programming with media is an obvious use case for live programming languages, so people assume the low hanging fruit is all there is?

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User interfaces are the classic examples, but I'm going to bring this to compilers in my next paper. It turns out you can easily generate a programmer-observable output for most programs by putting a lot of print statements in your code (barring some device drivers).