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I think this approach is really common for programmers who aren't programmers first. REPL and Excel both really encourage this style due to their near instant f

by dexwiz 4y ago

I think this approach is really common for programmers who aren't programmers first. REPL and Excel both really encourage this style due to their near instant feedback loops.

sn9 4y ago
On the other hand, a generation of world-class programmers were raised on the REPL and interactivity (e.g., Lisp and Smalltalk programmers from the 70s-80s). And interactivity can be an extremely effective way of experimenting and learning how things work and fit together so that you can rapidly develop a mental model of your core primitives and how to put them together in different ways. It's also part of the appeal of TDD. Small iterative loops with rapid feedback.