Brian Harvey scripsit:

> I'm guessing (I could be wrong of course) that you're not old enough to
> remember the days before interactive computing.  People used to have to debug
> with both hands tied behind their back, effectively -- there wasn't a keyboard
> for them to /use/ their hands on.  Lisp pioneered interactive program
> development; it wouldn't surprise me if 1000 years from now it is remembered
> more for that than for lambda, even.

That may or may not be true, but certainly the earliest Lisps predated the
REPL; Lisp 1.5 is clearly designed for a batch environment.

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