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This reminds me of when I was programming in Windows 1.03: 640K wasn't enough memory to run both Windows and the compiler, so the edit/debug cycle was: Reboot your machine, fire up the editor exit the editor, compile, reboot, start Windows, start the debugger, run your app from the MS-DOS Executive, reboot again... this was all before CodeView (Microsoft's first Visual Debugger), so you didn't even think about stepping through the code... we've come a long way!

The ironic thing is, Smalltalk had edit and continue capability back then. So IMHO, we really haven't come all that far yet.