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   Antonio Marques to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: REPL in Lisp   
   12 Jul 24 12:22:25   
   
   XPost: comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.scheme   
   From: no_email@invalid.invalid   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
   > On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:57:12 -0000 (UTC), Antonio Marques wrote:   
   >   
   >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:11:17 -0700, HenHanna wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> the acronym (?)  REPL  must be new in Lisp   (and Scheme)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> i'm sure i  never saw it (used or mentioned)   25  years ago.   
   >>>   
   >>> There are many new terms coined for old concepts. Like “capture” for   
   >>> “lexical binding”, or “dependency injection” for “callback”.   
   >>>   
   >> I can more or less see how callbacks can be used as a kind of dependency   
   >> injection, but those are separate concepts.   
   >   
   > “Dependency injection” is just packaging up a bunch of callbacks as   
   > methods in a class.   
   >   
      
   That's like saying Formula One is just putting cigarette stickers in your   
   boat.   
      
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