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You can get pretty close to that with JavaScript, especially with all the CodePen-like sites out there -- but even without those, the JavaScript console is pret
by Turing_Machine 9y ago
You can get pretty close to that with JavaScript, especially with all the CodePen-like sites out there -- but even without those, the JavaScript console is pretty similar to the old BASIC prompt in terms of immediacy and ubiquity.
JavaScript also has this in common with BASIC: the language bigots hate it. :-)
- wruza 9y agoI like BASIC, C, D, Objective C, Perl, Lua, 8080 and x86 Assembly (no code for around 15 years, but still) and probably few others catched my eye, like Io, LISP, Haskell, but I had no time to master these, only done a bunch of snippets discovering their power. But I hate js (and php) with all of my soul’s strings, no matter how much time I spent learning or fixing it. How about that single data point. Otoh, I bet most js bigots only know one language very good, guess what it’s name is.
- Jare 9y agoIndeed! I defended JS for this exact purpose after the 2D canvas became truly ubiquitous. Still a minor amount of boilerplate but you can be drawing stuff in no time. With an integrated editor it would be perfect!