A Mathematician looks at D

[Paulo Pinto]

On Tuesday, 19 February 2013 at 01:36:31 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Joshua Niehus:
>
>> I'll take your word for it, in my narrow experience, I've 
>> found REPLs slow me down.
>
> Thankfully in most cases you are not forced to use it. I have 
> met several persons that don't like to use a REPL, for unknown 
> reasons. Different persons have a brain shaped in different 
> ways.
>
> And for some kind of problems it's not so good. So it's not for 
> everyone everytime.
>
> But from the presence of a REPL in many languages (Python, 
> Ruby, C, Haskell, Scala, Lisp-like languages, and so on) and in 
> most mathematics systems, clearly it's appreciated by some 
> others.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Smalltalk way of working is also quite nice. It only got spoiled 
by the image concept.

If the compiler is made available as a library, it is quite easy 
to have a REPL in any language and it is quite handy for 
prototyping.

--
Paulo