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From: wilson@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu (Paul Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: The powerlessness of Lisp
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.164740.25066@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 91 16:47:40 GMT
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peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>In article <1991Mar26.172536.12178@linus.mitre.org> john@mingus.mitre.org (John D. Burger) writes:
>>   A ``REAL source level debugger'' and incremental compilation are
>>   functions of the environment.

>Just for the hell of it, let me point out that the two languages that
>have the greatest number of units out with these features *are* statically
>typed: Forth and Basic.
        ^^^^^

But Forth doesn't have a "REAL source level," so how could it have a
REAL source level debugger? 

Anything where you see raw words on the stack (as opposed to variables
with names and/or types) sounds like debugging intermediate code to me.
:-)  (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

>-- 
>Peter da Silva.  `-_-'  peter@ferranti.com
>+1 713 274 5180.  'U`  "Have you hugged your wolf today?"


    -- Paul

Paul R. Wilson                         
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-- 
Paul R. Wilson                         
Software Systems Laboratory               lab ph.: (312) 996-9216
U. of Illin. at C. EECS Dept. (M/C 154)   wilson@bert.eecs.uic.edu
Box 4348   Chicago,IL 60680