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Re:REPL vs CLI: IDE wars by lmm on Thursday July 01, 2021 @08:28PM (#27706608)
So that you can run your unit test from some unknown state that may not even be reachable from the current text of the code, rather than running it from the start in a reproducible way? Why would that be something you want?
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Re:REPL vs CLI: IDE wars by pjmlp on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:31AM (#27709117)
Unit testing was born in the Smalltalk community, good tooling is orthogonal to having tests.
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