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I sort of lost interest in what else the author had to say at this early point, despite having been interested in OCaml for many years. (Referring, for context,
by SomeHacker44 8y ago
I sort of lost interest in what else the author had to say at this early point, despite having been interested in OCaml for many years. (Referring, for context, to the "Do not make it REPL-centric" comment in the article.)
In Common Lisp, Clojure, Scheme/Racket and Haskell, I constantly develop with the REPL. I also use it in other languages such as Ruby which are not necessarily REPL-centric.
I find that I write much better (less buggy) code, faster, in a language with great support for a REPL.
- lucidone 8y ago100% agree. Rails console and irb is a major reason why I keep coming back to Rails, I haven't found anything as mature and pleasant to use in a web dev framework for verifying the code and tinkering with my models.
- dmbaturin 8y agoI'm not against the REPL (perhaps I should even describe its usage in more detail). In fact, I use it all the time. I'm against books like Learn You A Haskell that leave the reader wondering how to make and distribute executable programs. Or, worse, create an impression that it is not even possible, if the reader is not motivated enough to read another book or blog posts.