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Re:Learning Smalltalk from “Pharo by Example” by crististm on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @05:27AM (#9026330)
"He loved that he could close the environment and open it the next day with all his play right where it was." - I can't understand how such a basic functionality is missing from all the popular IDEs and text-editors-turned-IDEs.

It blows my mind that people don't see what an IDE should look like and what it should do.

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Re:Learning Smalltalk from “Pharo by Example” by Padding on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @05:51AM (#9026419)
It's all tradeoffs.

There are clear benefits to your IDE remaining unaffected regardless of how badly your program messes up.

Not to mention being able to get your code out of the IDE easily (for versioning, backup, deployment and whatever else). Or having code that is readable/understandable and deployable without an IDE.

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