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1 point by FredBrach 4646 days ago | link | parent

>> Also, please just copy-paste the session from your terminal in future.

I see, I will.

>> If it's easier we can go over more examples interactively over chat somewhere. Let me know if you want to try that; you'll see my email if you click on my username above.

Cool, that's more fun for sure :)

>> ... (the other points) ...

Fortunately I got those things. Also seems like the prompt is doing (pr (eval MyPrg))



2 points by akkartik 4646 days ago | link

> "seems like the prompt is doing (pr (eval MyPrg))"

Exactly! Lisp and similar languages are said to have a read-eval-print loop or REPL. The interpreter Reads an expression from the prompt, Eval's it, and then Prints the result.

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