On 2/13/07, Daniel C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Someone (Levi, I'm looking at you) correct me if I'm wrong, but I was
under the impression that it's not possible to have a true REPL
without also having Lisp. And since Java isn't Lisp...
The list you provided before is impressive though, and not just
because of it's length. The one that's most impressive to me ('cause
I don't know what some of the others mean) is that you can always see
code formatted the right way for you.
Keep talking, you might convince me to try Java.
Well, it is true in one sense that you can't have a true REPL without
functions named 'read', 'eval', and 'print' and a loop that ties them
together. But you can certainly have an interactive language
evaluator in pretty much any language, if you care to implement it.
From what I understand, there are even implementations of C that run
interpreted in a virtual machine and have an interactive evaluator.
--Levi
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