D Shell [was Re: A C++ interpreter]

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Mon Aug 13 07:03:03 PDT 2012


On 2012-08-13 08:51, Russel Winder wrote:

> Shells such as Python, Scala, etc. are good for some one-off experiments
> and tasks, but I think in general they are over-rated in general
> usefulness.  Much better for non-trivial experimentation is to have a
> super-lightweight editor/execution. Groovy has GroovyConsole, Python has
> IDLE. Personally I find Emacs/rdmd excellent as an experimentation
> combination for D codes.

I'm using TextMate (Mac OS X) and rdmd. I just create a new document, 
type the code and run it from within TextMate. I don't even have to save 
the document. I probably should make it so it automatically wraps the 
code in a main function for even easier and more script like usage.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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