Re: Lispification of Forth

minforth@gmx.net (minforth) writes:

IIRC in HolonForth it was also possible to access and
modify code and even sources on the fly, and were
immediately active after commitment. I don't know how
Wolf Weijgaard implementd that,

"We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection."

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_software_engineering>

That would certainly solve this particular problem.

In any case, when he demonstrated it, it was very impressive.

perhaps he was once inspired by Smalltalk.

That's certainly possible.  Like Holon, Smalltalk is a system where
you can browse and edit individual words, and edit them at run-time.

- anton
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