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by bachmeier 820 days ago
> Instead of running a file top-to-bottom, code is run out-of-order which makes the code organization and flow of a program a complete disaster.

That's more a REPL issue than specific to a particular language. It's the tradeoff you make. I write my R programs in Geany and then run the whole thing using Rscript. That gives me a clean environment on every run.