Interactive programming

About

Interactive programming is the procedure of writing parts of a program while it is already active.

A human executes code, looks at the results of this execution, and decides the next steps based on these outcomes. (ie REPL).

All application that are interactive implements a REPL execution paradigm

As Interactive programming happens incrementally, past results are often cached.

Articles Related

Example

• The notion of cell and notebook - programming by block
• Shell Computing
• Command Line (Interpreter|Interface)

Documentation / Reference

• wiki/Interactive_programming
• wiki/Literate_programming