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Robert C. Martin wrote:
> As for the style, the fluid transition from "design time" to "run time" is
> not quite correct.  In smalltalk it is pretty easy to make a simple change
> and then rerun.  The reason is that there are few, if any, compile time
> dependencies to worry about.  Thus, the edit-execute loop can be very
> short.  In statically
> typed languages, recompiles can take longer because of the dependency
> issues.  And so it is not quite as simple to edit and test.

The joke smalltalk hacks make is that C++ runs faster, but smalltalk
runs *sooner*. 

Most C++ hacks answer "that's because we have to take the bugs out 
*before* we run it".  :-)

-- 
Tim
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