I wish to have the skills to explain my work as well as Bret Victor does. Editing, reverting, and committing parts of a running program feel alien to users.

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tacon 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Isn't that part of Paul Graham's startup lore? They were running lisp web servers for their ecommerce store and while a customer was on the phone with an issue, they would patch the server live and ask the customer to reload. Customers would hang up convinced it was their personal glitch.

	▲	tov_objorkin 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The tool uses a Forth-like language with immutable data structures and persistent memory snapshots. It also uses Clojure style meta-data and compile-time meta-programming. I have no luck convincing people that a language without curly brackets is useful.