Talk:Interactive programming (repl): Difference between revisions

 

:Hi PauliKL, Forth and basic come from a time (the 80's), when it made sense to include an editor that could save programs to more permanent storage, as part of the language. Since then it has become more common to separate the programming language from any editor. You seem to stumble over the fact that in the modern use of the term CLI, you can define functions, and classes etc as part of a CLI session. I say you can and so the task is valid, you say you can't and so the task is invalid. I have already sugested that you are at liberty to state that the addition of line numbers in your version of Basic which you say is necessary for the creation of functions is viewed as an editor function for that version of Basic (Their are other versions of Basic that don't even require line numbers). We may have a difference in semantics and maybe your explanation for your version of Basic will avoid any confusion. To say that what is correct nomenclature for basic is true for other languages doesn't help. We have been discussing this issue for several days now and their are several entries on the page by other authors who don't see a problem. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 19:50, 15 April 2009 (UTC)