A Mathematician looks at D

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:37:00 +0100
"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> 
> A REPL is handy when you don't know the correct usage of 
> something: you try something, read the error it gives you, ask 
> for some help to the system, and try again, etc.

I can do that just as easily without a REPL.

> 
> If your interactive system also has some cumulative graphics 
> output this is very handy, you can rotate and change plot 
> parameters interactively until you find some good ones (this is 
> possible in Mathematica).
> 

This, however, is certainly not a bad benefit of REPL.