How awesome is it

To modify and inspect your program as it runs?

not very

very very very very very very very awesome I love it,
it really is the best way to work.

>>2
lol c

It is great, has helped me out a lot i manage to many projects to do it without that extra hand :)

>>1
You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish.

I love debuggers. They help me follow the how of the logic of other people's code.

>>7
Debugger? Not what I meant.

>>8
debugger helps with the process of following the code logic.

impossible

anything is possible with basic

>>8
Then what did you mean? The REPL? Anyways, debuggers are awesome, I have to agree with there OP, even if you didn't intend it.

>>12
I am the OP. And I wasn't referring to REPLs in particular, but to live code updates and introspection in general.

Debuggers may be awesome, but they're not as awesome as that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_(computer_science)

Ah, good ol' reflection. Yeah, I've always considered it as a sort of hack, unless your building some sort of plugin/component based system. I've never had a need for it, anyway.

>>15
Yeah, reflection is a hack used in weak languages to attain some semblance of dynamism. In an actual dynamic language I might be running my program in one window while rearranging its guts in another. I started this thread because I'm writing a roguelike, running it in a terminal while I change the code in Emacs and load in my changes. So when I'm working on the function that controls what region of the world is shown, I can just change it, switch windows, and make my character take a few steps, rather than quitting the game, recompiling, starting the game again, and getting to a location where I can test what I need to see.

Or I can add flags to the code and change them without having to write a user interface for doing it.

lol emacs

>>15
Lol C programmer

It's very awesome. After years of barely enjoying C++, it was a real "WOW" to use a language that allowed introspection. (That language was Python.)

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