On 24 December 2011 15:19, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, December 22, 2011 5:42:12 PM UTC+1, Dick Wall wrote: >> >> As is often the case Reinier - you seem to have got your enthusiasm >> making statements that are far to over general. >> >> Here is the history from my development machine (not one of the ones I >> use for Scala training) along with the number of times I have started the >> scala REPL >> >> dick@Apollo:~$ history | wc -l >> 500 >> dick@Apollo:~$ history | grep scala | wc -l >> 31 >> dick@Apollo:~$ history | grep "sbt console" | wc -l >> 40 >> > > > Sure, that sounds about right. I open my scrapbook (which is the exact > same thing as a REPL, just not called a REPL - you've apparently missed the > point but I'll get into that next paragraph) > So you can write a small program in the scrapbook, to test a concept? You can use it as a system scripting language with no more than a shebang at the top of a file? It can easily specify and pull in dependencies? ( http://stackoverflow.com/a/7286545/165009) It's a natural and obvious place to start a complete newcomer with their very first "Hello, world!" example? These are very natural and obvious things to have in any REPL that was a part of the language from conception. Not so much when it's a poorly-appreciated part of an ide-specific "advanced" debugging framework. ... about a tenth as often as you do, but then, java is easier to > understand so there's less for me to try out. > Just as Duplo is easier to understand than Lego Mindstorms, but that's really just an indicator of the circumstances where you'd choose to use Mindstorms. Stop trolling. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
