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Re:Scriptcs gets a REPL by balakk on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @11:03PM (#5672248)
That's a rather low bar, don't you think? Haskell/ML family languages had all that and more.
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Re:Scriptcs gets a REPL by kevingadd on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @11:17PM (#5672280)
Haskell/ML families bear only the slightest similarity to C#. Saying 'Haskell has a REPL, so why doesn't C#' is like saying 'C and GLSL both have structs, so why doesn't C run on my GPU?'*

Furthermore, like I said in another comment, a C# REPL in that era would have been nearly unusable. The language is not designed for incremental authoring or compilation.

* CUDA notwithstanding

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Re:Scriptcs gets a REPL by pjmlp on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @04:53AM (#5673201)
It is a matter of implementation, it has nothing to do with the language per se.
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