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Aug 18, 2025 at 22:44
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Today I learnt that Racket *intentionally* doesn't have a traditional REPL workflow. The authors were concerned about students not understanding the state between the current session and the code on disk. (Arguably Jupyter has some of these features now.)
the DrScheme repl isn't the one in Emacs
_posted by matthias_ Dear old Lisper, You have found drscheme and it is almost like your old Lisp machine. It is easy to program in it, it has things that nobody else has, and we all love parentheses. But after some initial enthusiasm you are wondering ...

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