Re:SBCL: The Ultimate Assembly Code Breadboard
by pjmlp on Sunday March 16, 2014 @12:55PM
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Any language can have a REPL, it is a plain implementation issue.
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Re:SBCL: The Ultimate Assembly Code Breadboard
by lispm on Sunday March 16, 2014 @06:21PM
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It's not. You will detect that in many cases it is a language issue, too. If you look at Lisp, you can see that the language definitions are optimized for interactive use and have a lot of facilities defined at the language level: incremental definitions, evaluation, effects of loading code, a robust interactive error system, ...
Re:SBCL: The Ultimate Assembly Code Breadboard
by pjmlp on Monday March 17, 2014 @03:26AM
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How come it is not?
- Create an interpreter library for language X
- Offer a GUI/CLI application using the said library
Not all repls need to work at function level like LISP does.