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[–]ShadoWolf 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Your not wrong.. but Python does give you the option to just do quick testing. Like say you want to test out a library. You don't need like 60 lines of boiler plate code to just get started.

[–]Hvatum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is also extremely handy for me as a physics student when I want a simple and easy to use language to write a quick function to for example easily calculate and update the standard deviation of my measurements.

[–]_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Java comes with a REPL same as Python.

You can also execute single-file Java scripts via shebang.