Live editing...  kirby.urner at kirby.urner at Tue Jul 31
22:38:55 CEST 2007  There's been some chatter on edu-sig ( of
late regarding capabilities in the "edit/continue" tradition,
meaning debugging tools, and/or IDE tools, that give the
developer real time write access to running  I think a good
design would be something like the ZODB, or the ZODB to save the
entire working environment, like a Smalltalk image, at which
point a "supervisor Python" (a whole different instance, perhaps
on another could do "brain surgery" on the "hibernating Python"
(like a patient  You basically simulate or emulate the
"operating table" version, without putting yourself at its
mercy.  If you break it completely, while doing your brain
surgery, just abort the instance and roll back to the previously
saved version.  It's like sitting on top of a version control
system, while never getting to directly edit the currently
operating version (the supervisor).  The alternative, allowing a
developer to undermine his/her own running see