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		throwaway344 on Nov 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Four years of Go Statically typed languages don't necessarily not have a REPL, most functional languages are statically typed and yet they general have a REPL. OCaml, Haskell, F# and the like.

adriaanm on Nov 11, 2013 [–]

Another example would be Scala. It has a command-line REPL and the IDE has a worksheet[1]. I find both tremendously useful.

[1] https://github.com/scala-ide/scala-worksheet/wiki/Getting-St...

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