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		eric4smith on April 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) But we can do that with C. And maybe even easier.

sebastianconcpt on April 22, 2022 | [–]

You cannot change the form of an object while debugging a thread that halted because that object didn't understood a message you sent with C and then recompile, restart the stack all without killing that thread, can you?

wtetzner on April 21, 2022 | | [–]

It’s not at all the same. In Smalltalk, you can modify your environment in real time.

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