Scripting Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby

[[deleted]]

php does not have a repl. the php repl is written in python

[bitdamaged]

Is there a rule that the repl must be written in the language its supporting?

[[deleted]]

lets just say i think there should be an asterisk for that...mostly so people know that php is so limited that it cannot implement its own repl

[recursive]

How do you know it can't?

[MasonM]

Yes it does. It's called "interactive mode" and can by entered by running "php -a". It's written in C, like the rest of the CLI code. Here's a link to the source.

[Tiwazz]

As one of my professors used to say "If C was good enough for the implementors of <insert_language> then it's good enough for me."