On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 16:05 +0000, Kevin Wright wrote:
>
> > Since when has Haskell been dynamic?  Hindley and Milner would *not*
> > be amused to hear that...
>
> Fair point.  That'll teach me to try and keep two email replies on the
> go at once.
>
> The point is really about being able to run code without having to
> explicitly compile it.


I think this is a red herring. Compiling will be all but instantaneous for
most starter projects.

The important thing is to give quick gratification to students, which both
compiled and interpreted languages offer.

I agree that having a REPL would be a good thing to have, and while Java
does have one to some extent, it's not as friendly as one offered by Ruby or
Python.

-- 
Cédric

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