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LgWoodenBadger
on Oct 26, 2018
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Not Lisp again (2009)
I've always thought (probably because I'm not that smart) that REPL really should have been coined as REPR instead.
Though I guess that wouldn't be valid lisp if you tried to express it literally.
kaoD
on Oct 26, 2018
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R as in repeat? REPL makes sense if you read it as "read-eval-print loop" (loop being the noun, not another verb).
zodiac
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R as in REPR
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Though I guess that wouldn't be valid lisp if you tried to express it literally.