nemesis wrote:
> oh!  Didn't know that.  Such a crazy idea, after all... what's the point 

The point was that when your link takes 45 minutes and a full recompile 
takes 4 hours, you build your lower-level libraries once, link them into the 
interpreter, and then develop the next layer of functionality in the 
interpreter until you're ready to compile *that* layer.

I.e., it was really more useful as a REPL sort of thing than anything in 
production. Plus, IIRC, it did things for you like looking for buffer 
clobbering and such, if you told it to.  And allowed breakpoints and all 
that stuff. But mainly I used it to avoid the overhead of compile and link 
during development.

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    via religion is like understanding the
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