I have a ten-year-old Dell that I still use for some development and testing, and it runs the latest Debian and Fedora releases just fine.
> But that's not really a REPL. It lacks the 'L' and often also the 'P'. This objection is subtle. The "P" in REPL of course does not simply mean to emit some printed representation of the result of the last evaluation,…
In Smalltalk, the class browser (editor) has always been the REPL. You can highlight any snippet of code you browse, including code you're currently editing, and evaluate it in the context of whatever class you're…
I have a ten-year-old Dell that I still use for some development and testing, and it runs the latest Debian and Fedora releases just fine.
> But that's not really a REPL. It lacks the 'L' and often also the 'P'. This objection is subtle. The "P" in REPL of course does not simply mean to emit some printed representation of the result of the last evaluation,…
In Smalltalk, the class browser (editor) has always been the REPL. You can highlight any snippet of code you browse, including code you're currently editing, and evaluate it in the context of whatever class you're…