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

[Russel Winder]

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.

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