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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2019 10:10:19 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   @Charles Stanhope @Dave Morriss The question literally said that it would be nice to be able to play with the code interactively without having to write shell script files.
   
   Maybe there's an intuitive leap required to understand that the shell and the language are the same, a leap nobody can remember having made when thinking back on it 26 years later.
   
   Or maybe it's 35 years later, considering that Commodore BASIC was also a RE_L and an OS interface combined, much like a shell is. And inbetween I used the Amiga Shell, of course.
   1. Dave Morriss (perloid@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2019 10:31:19 EDT Dave Morriss

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      @clacke @cstanhope I hardly ever use REPL stuff myself. Possibly because I learnt Algol 60 on a punched card system originally and probably never really shed that mindset in the past nearly 50 years.

      1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2019 10:41:13 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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         @Dave Morriss @Charles Stanhope I REPL far less than I could and possibly should. People who work live in LISP servers claim to be very productive and @Christopher Lemmer Webber 's live hacking talk with his MUD was very impressive, but I've never really done that so I guess I don't know what I'm missing.
         
         I try small things out in a REPL, quickly test and poke the interface of a function I'm about to use, or experiment with an algorithm I'm designing. But my main cycle is the write, (compile,) run cycle, even with Racket, Tcl and bash.