Re:The Common Lisp Condition System – Upcoming Book
by protomyth on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:22AM
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I've noticed quite a few Smalltalk programmers who actually coded in the debugger. They would put a call in the program, hit it as an error, and then write new code. Does this happen with Common Lisp programmers?
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Re:The Common Lisp Condition System – Upcoming Book
by p_l on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:15AM
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I know of several lispers that swear by top-down "programming inside debugger", where they continuously fill in the gaps starting from top level function :-D
Re:The Common Lisp Condition System – Upcoming Book
by phoe-krk on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:17AM
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Do you have any videos of such programming style performed in Lisp, or could you try to convince some of those programmers to record some of their programming sessions?
Re:The Common Lisp Condition System – Upcoming Book
by rags2riches on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @12:27PM
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You could look up Baggers on Youtube for plenty of fun Lisp coding sessions.
Re:The Common Lisp Condition System – Upcoming Book
by phoe-krk on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @12:36PM
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I know Baggers and his videos but I wasn't aware that he does debugger-oriented programming. Thanks, I'll pay closer attention to them!
Re:The Common Lisp Condition System – Upcoming Book
by phoe-krk on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:31AM
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Smalltalk and Common Lisp are both image-based programming languages where the compiler and debugger are always available. I think debugger-oriented programming is much more common in Smalltalk than in Lisp (at least I prefer to leave the debugger back to REPL pretty often), but I think it's certainly possible to adopt. The Slime/Sly environments for emacs might accept a few patches to facilitate that programming style better.