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

[Brad Anderson]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk>wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 07:53 +0200, Era Scarecrow wrote:
> > On Monday, 13 August 2012 at 04:25:19 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> > > Am Mon, 13 Aug 2012 05:38:01 +0200
> > > schrieb Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com>:
> > >
> > >> On 8/13/12, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> > >> > http://blog.coldflake.com/posts/2012-08-09-On-the-fly-C%2B%2B.html
> > >>
> > >> http://dlang.org/rdmd.html
> > >
> > > Aw come on, that is not a shell
> >
> >   Isn't rdmd just a wrapper for the compiler, then calls the
> > compiled code (or previously saved version of it) afterwards?
> > (That's the impression I get anyways)
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Russel.
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I just use http://dpaste.dzfl.pl for my quick testing.

I do miss not having vim keybindings but I do gain dmd-git support without
the pain of setting it up locally.  I'm often testing stuff during a
discussion in #D IRC so the site makes it much easier to share as well.

BA
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