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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 23:39:15 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 14:09:14 -0800, John Ames wrote:

> 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).

By the way, I don’t think Perl has a REPL. I think the term comes from 
Lisp.

> 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.

I often don’t. Actually I don’t use a REPL much (beyond one-liners, 
anyway). Jupyter notebooks give me a broader canvas for doing “scratchpad” 
programming, as I am putting ideas together.