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by pjmlp 880 days ago
There are GUI tools that do that, and thankfully most scripting languages have a REPL.
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Symbiote 880 days ago
I'll bet it takes longer to find and use a GUI tool for these.

And a shell is a REPL.

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pjmlp 880 days ago
You bet wrong, because naturally approaching 50y, I have my tools for quite some time, for the stuff I care about, not random examples on the Internet.

A UNIX shell is a very bad approximation of a real programming language REPL.

It is no accident that sh scripts turn into Perl, Python, Tcl, Lisp,... when one wants to keep sanity.

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