On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:37:00 +0100 "bearophile" <[email protected]> wrote: > > A REPL is handy when you don't know the correct usage of > something: you try something, read the error it gives you, ask > for some help to the system, and try again, etc.
I can do that just as easily without a REPL. > > If your interactive system also has some cumulative graphics > output this is very handy, you can rotate and change plot > parameters interactively until you find some good ones (this is > possible in Mathematica). > This, however, is certainly not a bad benefit of REPL.
