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There are lots of interesting problems with interacting with external underdocumented systems.

I find edit and continue really useful for making something worm with these.

Are these out of the reach of "professional programmers"? Can they only work on systems with fully specified models, with exacting requirements?

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I agree with you and poorly worded this for a larger audience that doesn’t have the full context of design decisions on the feature.

As an example ... for a ‘professional programmer’ there is an argument that allowing E&C to work if you edit in vim or emails is a feature. For what we needed to accomplish that is an anti-feature.

I should probably not care, but i do: Emacs, not emails. I should also not write these on an iphone.

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