(as an interested university student:) From Programming at a small scale in Javascript and Logo¹, I have gathered that not knowing what type something is can be annoying. They also have REPLs, which is pretty nice. From various blog posts and debugging Rust programs, I have learned that not having a REPL can be annoying. Are there languages that have both?
(¹ Logo is a “lisp” with omitable parentheses, where these also don’t define runtime-mutable s-expressions, lists are in brackets, and also Logo doesn’t have structs, giving it bad maintainability outside of not having Type Annotation too)
Candidates
- C# : Does it have a repl?
- Java in BlueJ somehow
- sometimes people just put Lisp or Lua in their C/Rust++ program (emacs, shenzhen I/O(game)), this accomplishes a similar task of making some debugging or scripting code faster to compile/interpret, but slower to run
What’s the big thing that enables, I’ve played with so many languages but I’ve never actually used OCaml enough to understand that feature
Modules are called such because they enable modularity. https://www.pathsensitive.com/2023/03/modules-matter-most-for-masses.html?m=1 that link will explain it more thoroughly than I want to or probably could.
Ah ok, we’re getting into Coq proofs. I’m trying to work through Software Foundations but it’s so tricky! I feel like I need an intellect potion to get it