Interactive Mode Languages
Interactive mode languages act as a kind of shell: expressions or statements can be entered one at a time, and the result of their evaluation is seen immediately.
- APL
- BASIC (some dialects)
- Clojure
- Common Lisp
- Erlang
- F#
- Fancy
- Forth
- FPr
- Fril
- Haskell (with the GHCi or Hugs interpreter)
- IDL
- J
- Lua
- MUMPS (an ANSI standard general purpose language)
- Maple
- Mathematica
- MATLAB
- ML
- Mythryl
- Obix
- Perl (with the perl shell, psh)
- Pike
- PostScript
- Python
- R
- REXX
- Ruby (with IRB)
- Scala
- Scheme
- Smalltalk (anywhere in a Smalltalk environment)
- S-Lang (with the S-Lang shell, slsh)
- Tcl (with the Tcl shell, tclsh)
- Windows PowerShell (Microsoft .NET-based CLI)
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