Re: What is Babel's relationship with a Lisp REPL? State or stateless?

[Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com>]

Does this answer your question?

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-lisp.html#sec-3-2

I usually set up Scheme and R to keep a single buffer around with
Racket or R running in them. I do work in there outside of org just
like I do inside of org; figure stuff out and rely on the single
memory state. That is the typical development workflow.

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:54 AM, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I'm creating an org file in a buffer which has source blocks for, say,
> Lisp, then I can "run" these blocks of Lisp code and Babel will fill in the
> "answer" just below in my buffer. Good. As advertised. But what is really
> happening to this code? Does Babel invoke a Lisp REPL once, do the code,
> print out the results my buffer and go away? Or is this invoked REPL somehow
> persistent, able to remember what has happened before?
>
> With regular Lisp and SLIME, you have a buffer where you write your code
> next to a running REPL that handles the code when you ask it to. It keeps
> "state" and your program grows. But this arrangement is not really literate
> programming. Maybe good comments are possible, but it's not orgmode literate
> programming.
>
> But then again, if Babel doesn't support REPL "state," then what am I
> gaining? Please enlighten me. . . .
>
>
> LB



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