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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by alex_hitchins on Friday May 06, 2022 @08:05AM (#31284167)
If I recall correctly, you could write new code during debugging sessions, move the pointer to it and run it. Very dynamic. We can now do some of these things in VS or other tools with .Net, however VB was much more powerful in this regard. I can only recall there being one statement that required a rebuild - was it CreateObject or similar?
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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by pjmlp on Friday May 06, 2022 @08:17AM (#31284261)
VS has been offering that since at least 2015 version, and improving on it since then.
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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by alex_hitchins on Friday May 06, 2022 @09:19AM (#31284767)
Indeed, it's come along way and I'm not knocking it.

Point is thought this was there out the box with VB.

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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by pjmlp on Friday May 06, 2022 @09:49AM (#31285047)
Agreed, at least they eventually added it back, even the Me like objects.
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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by zozbot234 on Friday May 06, 2022 @08:09AM (#31284203)
You can do the same thing in many languages derived from LISP, but supporting all that runtime monkey patching requires having dynamic indirections everywhere which add a ton of overhead.
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