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What does repl stand for?
Coder100 (172)

This probably is a dumb question, but what exactly does REPL stand for?

Answered by TheDrone7 (551) [earned 5 cycles]
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TheDrone7 (551)

Repl stands for Read Eval Print Loop.

Coder100 (172)

@TheDrone7 Ah, ok. Do you have any idea why it is named this way or what it means?

amasad (1384)

@Coder100 it's a program that allows you to interactively code, which is what is about (except it's a lot more feature complete). @Kognise built one in Scheme that works. Try hitting run and entering something like (print 'hello)