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Re:Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today by drivers99 on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @05:39PM (#11949620)
BASIC also did this on pretty much every microcomputer in the 1980s.
Re:Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today by mmiller on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @02:32AM (#11951958)
Kind of, but it was clunkier. You could Break out of an executing program, edit the code you wanted, and then type CONT to continue execution from the break point. The state from that point forward might not be what you want, though. At least inside VS it tries to revert state so that the revision executes as if the state came into it "clean."