Interactive programming

Hung Jung Lu hungjunglu at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 16 17:20:00 EST 2003


Hi,

Is there a term for the ability of changing program code without the
need of restarting the program? I mean, the most typical developer's
cycle is:

(a) write code
(b) set break points, start the program 
(c) find bug, change code, goto (b)

I know some environments allow you to modify the code, and resume
execution, without having to restart your program from the very
beginning. Some terms I have heard are "interactive programming",
"edit-and-resume", etc. But is there standard name for this feature?

regards,

Hung Jung




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