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by spacemanaki 5183 days ago
And F# is not the only statically typed language with a (built-in or out of the box) REPL: ML, Haskell, OCaml, and Scala all have REPLs.

Some of these predate Java and C#, but I don't know what it is about those languages and the cultures around them that has ignored the value of a REPL. I guess part of it is just inertia at this point, but it's definitely one of the biggest things I miss when working in Java on Android.
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jetti 5182 days ago
The problem is F# has arguably the best tool chain out of all of the languages you listed. Hell, I still have problems getting Scala to work with Netbeans 7.1 and I'm not sure of any IDE (for windows at least) for ML, Haskell or OCaml.
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spacemanaki 5182 days ago
You may be right, but on the other hand F#'s toolchain isn't that hot on OS X and Linux (being facetious, but I'm half-serious). Anyway I was really only talking about the presence of a "first-class" REPL.
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