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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 14:09:14 -0800
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On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:47:38 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:10:39 -0800, John Ames wrote:
> 
> > ... FreeBASIC is my go-to
> > for hacking together quick utility applications in daily life ...  
> 
> No REPL? Even Perl and Python can offer that. Even the old-style
> BASICs had something like that (immediate mode).

Depends on the use case, but generally when I'm throwing together some
one-off utility or proof-of-concept I know about what I'm trying to do
and how I intend to structure the thing ahead of time, just from
thinking about the problem. From there, it's usually just a matter of
fleshing out the initial prototype and then throwing test cases at it
'til it stops exploding, and I don't often need a REPL for that.