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		chriswarbo on April 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Languages I want to write > A language where the program is constructed by editing a running process in-place with a debugger/IDE, then the process is "saved" as an executable. Another fun language which does this is Factor https://factorcode.org

javajosh on April 14, 2019 [–]

I don't have first-hand knowledge of it, but I understand that Smalltalk was/is developed like this - and it has significant drawbacks.

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