We have been discussing 'optimistic run' for at least a year. The idea has been
around since the late 80's back then called 'optimistic make' (the OS ran
Makefiles when triggering events occurred so that when you typed 'make', there
was nothing to do). About 10 years ago, we discussed a related
An off-list discussion spurred by my previous post about IDE's for education
led to the following blue-sky idea:
Suppose there were another pane or window in DrRacket that showed essentially
what we see in Interactions immediately after we click "Run" -- the values of
all the top-level expressi
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