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		gowld on Sept 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Throw away code REPL == eval.

mumblemumble on Sept 26, 2020 [–]

eval is useful for making a repl, but there are languages with a repl and no eval (Haskell comes to mind), and there are languages like PHP that have eval but no (built-in) repl.

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