On Tuesday, 19 February 2013 at 01:36:31 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Joshua Niehus:
I'll take your word for it, in my narrow experience, I've
found REPLs slow me down.
Thankfully in most cases you are not forced to use it. I have
met several persons that don't like to use a REPL, for unknown
reasons. Different persons have a brain shaped in different
ways.
And for some kind of problems it's not so good. So it's not for
everyone everytime.
But from the presence of a REPL in many languages (Python,
Ruby, C, Haskell, Scala, Lisp-like languages, and so on) and in
most mathematics systems, clearly it's appreciated by some
others.
Bye,
bearophile
Smalltalk way of working is also quite nice. It only got spoiled
by the image concept.
If the compiler is made available as a library, it is quite easy
to have a REPL in any language and it is quite handy for
prototyping.
--
Paulo
