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We had a conversation on edit and continue in the new VS tools that MS is shipping in the IRC channel the other day - Sean Malloy gave his take on things over on his blog. As we discussed the differences in VS and in VisualWorks, we came up with the description Implement and Continue for the way it works in Smalltalk. What does that term mean? It means that you can do a lot more than small scale editing in the debugger in Smalltalk. You can implement new methods (the debugger itself can generate a stub when you hit a Message Not Understood - perfect when doing TDD, and you haven't actually written the code yet.

This all came up in this post from a couple of days ago. Interestingly enough, that item got linked on the MSDN VS 2005 page. If any of the MS oriented developers reading this are interested in having a look at Smalltalk, you can download it here.