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Submitter here: Yes, and some of the claims are simply factually incorrect: the original work on refactoring OO programs was done in the context of Smalltalk, the code navigation we now have in IDEs was taken from Smalltalk (in fact, Eclipse started out as Visual Age Smalltalk) etc. So I find the post "debatable"...
(blog author) Well I thought refactoring went all the way back to Forth. I'm sure that with some language xyz it worked out very well for some project abc and that obviously disproves my whole point and you can move on... I found writing large projects in Python - a language I was very familiar with, expert even - to become very difficult to extend aka maintain after a long time. My post should be seen in the bigger…
Re: Dynamic Languages are Unmaintainable
#71I think you're thinking of the very good book "Thinking FORTH", which presented an incremental style of development coupled with a Lispy DSL architecture.