It seems to me that a better answer to your kind of WHY question would be a well-maintained revision history of the code base, with properly explanatory commit messages and a toolset that makes it easy to browse the code's...
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Code can't explain who should be contacted if a bug is found, or that this code is due to be superseded in 2010Q2 Just use Intentional Programming Studio and your weirdest code snippet becomes transparent to the reader - maybe...
Also, the formatting of this paper is insane. The long code examples would best be pushed into an appendix -- OOPSLA's required two column layout is not friendly to LP demonstration and is more concerned with tight page count!...
Re: comment #51863 … Alex Plotnick's CLWEB turned out to be really, really nice for what it is.¹ For everything else, it's lacking a feature whose absence will likely be a showstopper for most Lispers — it doesn't work under...
What rcs system lets you input searchable rich hypermedia or searchable typeset commit messages? Moreover, this is like comparing ACM Portal Search for "tree pattern matching" and "tree acceptance" and "tree parsing" to Loek...