[gambit-list] Interactive development with Gambit?

Guillaume Cartier gcartier at jazzscheme.org
Tue Feb 28 19:13:32 EST 2012


Wow. Thanks for sharing this video with us and making me discover the
wonderful and inspiring ideas of Bret Victor!

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Joe Doyle Ardent
<gambit at ardent.nebcorp.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 03:14:48PM -0500, François Magnan wrote:
>>
>> Actually, the development was done on a Mac with a remote REPL running
>> in the iPad for incremental/interactive developement.
>>
>
>        So, here's a question about that: can you, or anyone else who
> has done similar, describe that workflow?  Are you able to build up a
> program by poking at the REPL, and then have that built-up state reified
> into a compiled binary?
>
>        I'm asking about this because I'd like to have a Scheme
> environment that is similar to this, from Bret Victor's mindblowing
> talk, "Inventing on Principle" (specifically, starting right after the
> 18 minute mark):
>
> http://vimeo.com/36579366
>
>        However, I've never seen any dev environment like this, for
> Scheme or otherwise.  Does SLIME/Swank provide something similar?
>
>
> -Joe
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