Re: REPL in Lisp

On 7/10/2024 10:26 PM, yeti wrote:

HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> writes:
 

the acronym (?)  REPL  must be new in Lisp   (and Scheme)
>
i'm sure i  never saw it (used or mentioned)   25  years ago.

 

I remember REPL back until the early 80s.  Wikipedia does not contradict
and adds a bit more:
 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_loop>
      History
      In 1964, the expression READ-EVAL-PRINT cycle is used by L. Peter
     Deutsch and Edmund Berkeley for an implementation of Lisp on the
     PDP-1.
      Since at least the 1980s, the abbreviations REP Loop and REPL are
     attested in the context of Scheme.
 

afaicr  in the 1980's  everyone  spelled it out as
                        Read-Eval-Print Loop   or  Cycle.
(i think)  Guy Steele's AI Memos sometimes used  [R-E-P Loop]
              but never REPL