Abstract Midgard is a design and prototype of an incremental program development environment, where part of the development of a program is carried out in the context of an execution of the program itself. Midgard is based on dynamic extensibility supported by a dynamic compiler and an incremental linker. The goal of Midgard is to provide better support for exploratory programming by enabling the developer to experiment with different designs and solutions while maintaining a low turn--around time during most of the development. A prototype implementation for the block structured statically checked object--oriented programming language BETA is presented and the underlying techniques for compilation and linking are described. The prototype has the traditional benefits of static checking and gains some of the flexibility associated with exploratory programming environments. Furthermore the techniques used for dynamic compilation and incremental linking are relatively simple compared to other systems supporting exploratory programming for statically checked object--oriented languages.
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