While fascinating, the short article likewise mentions itself why these tools gathered dust:
They needed training to utilize, (most likely rather substantial) upkeep to stay up to date with their particular languages, and i would argue given that the introduction of the web there is often simpler methods to attain similar outcomes.
One example i might believe off immediately is Matchmaker – if you require glue code you google the start and end and discover the glue chain on Stackoverflow.
Whyline is basically a type of reverse debugging which never ever got much appeal, even where readily available. However i do understand the existing Intellij’s for java have something along that concept, when you debug to something null that will be dereferenced there is an alternative “why is this null”.