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g051051 on Sept 27, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: What if Git worked with programming languages?

Back in the early 2000's Visual Age for Java allowed you to version individual methods. Since Visual Age for Java was derived from Visual Age for Smalltalk (and was actually written in Smalltalk) I suppose it inherited the capability from there.

igouy on Sept 28, 2021 [–]

More specifically from ENVY/Developer

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope...

which was available for the three main commercial Smalltalk platforms: VisualWorks, IBM Smalltalk, Digitalk.

g051051 on Sept 28, 2021 | [–]

I never knew that! Thanks.

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