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I don't know - the kind of programmer who's always worried about every what-if probably shouldn't choose any dynamic interactive language in the first place. Th

I don't know - the kind of programmer who's always worried about every what-if probably shouldn't choose any dynamic interactive language in the first place. There are plenty of language permutations out there for all sensibilities.

synthc 4y ago
But programmers should be worried about every what-if scenario, regardless of language.
funstuff007 4y ago
> worried about every what-if I hear you about this, but during prototyping one cannot be excessively concerned with did I change the global state enough such that it's better to just start a new REPL (and have to worry about the associated costs)? And if you ask this question a lot, long running REPLs are not a good idea for development.
- synthc 4y ago
  for prototyping a long running repl is fine. For validation/testing starting with a clean slate takes away a lot of my worries.