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Obviosly Dijkstra didn't see the benefit of a REPL, since be believe that you should sit down an prove the correctness of software by hand before you were allow
by goto11 8y ago
Obviosly Dijkstra didn't see the benefit of a REPL, since be believe that you should sit down an prove the correctness of software by hand before you were allowed to execute it.
- C1sc0cat 8y agoIn his day that made sense - you might have to submit your program to a batch queue with long > 1 day turnaround.
- goto11 8y agoOr you could develop interactively using a language with a REPL like BASIC. Which Dijkstra was railing against.
- C1sc0cat 8y agoNot always my first BASIC programs where written on coding sheets and we got the results a week later :-)
- IWeldMelons 8y agoYeah, it is like compiling a Rust program today, on a mediocre machine - 1 day turnaround.