Programming in an Interactive Environment: The Lisp Experience (1978) [pdf]

[brudgers]

https://www.ida.liu.se/ext/caisor/archive/1978/001/caisor-1978-001.pdf

[peruvian]

...And now thanks to things like ClojureScript's Figwheel and Devcards and the various React hot loaders, we're getting closer to 1978.

[wtbob → peruvian]

Some of us use Common Lisp and are thus all the way to 1994:-)

It'd be kinda of nice to use something even better, though. I've still not found it.

[tectec]

"...very simple database systems such as MUMPS". I'm not sure MUMPS is a good example of a simple system.

[brudgers → tectec]

The first customer of IBM Research's System R relational database was Pratt and Whitney in 1977. [1] IBM didn't release a commercial relational database until 1981. [2] The article is from 1978. Anyway MUMPS is probably simpler since than an SQL database since its database is a key value store. The big problem is that it made it easy to write unreadable code and people wrote enough of it to give it a bad reputation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_R

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_DB2