>
>
> 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.
>

*cough, cough*  I think you forgot Fantom in that list :)

http://fantom.org/doc/docTools/Fansh.html
<http://fantom.org/doc/docIntro/HelloWorld.html#fansh>
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