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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Lispification of Forth
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 09:52:16 GMT
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minforth@gmx.net (minforth) writes:
>IIRC in HolonForth it was also possible to access and
>modify code and even sources on the fly, and were
>immediately active after commitment. I don't know how
>Wolf Weijgaard implementd that,

"We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection."

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_software_engineering>

That would certainly solve this particular problem.

In any case, when he demonstrated it, it was very impressive.

>perhaps he was once inspired by Smalltalk.

That's certainly possible.  Like Holon, Smalltalk is a system where
you can browse and edit individual words, and edit them at run-time.

- anton
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