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pjmlp on Oct 27, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: JEP 295: Ahead-of-Time Compilation

> There's also a lot of little things like REPLs, runtime metaprogramming, blah blah, that used to be solely the domain of dynamic languages

If you go read the Xerox PARC, DEC and ETHZ papers you will find REPL goodies using static system programming languages with automatic memory management.

The Xerox ones even did correction suggestions when compiler errors happened.

Namely Mesa/Cedar, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Oberon and its descendants.

AlphaSite on Oct 27, 2016 [–]

Swift, Java, Scala, Haskell, Etc all have REPLs as well.

pjmlp on Oct 28, 2016 | [–]

Yeah, I was just trying to point out that it isn't something recent, rather all the way back to early 80's.

For example Oberon System 3 already had something in spirit similar to Swit Playgrounds.

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