From: Reyn Vlietstra Date: 2005-08-16T03:18:40+09:00 Subject: Re: Building a REPL for Ruby On a related note, Is there a bash like shell written for administering linux/windows in ruby ? Something like monad ? To give a stupid example, we could wrap 'man' in a class and add a 'search' method which would call 'man -k'. Just thought ruby could be perfect for something like this ... On 8/15/05, gabriele renzi wrote: > Phil Tomson ha scritto: > > In article , > > Shalev NessAiver wrote: > > > >>Yes, I know ruby already has irb, but I have a friend who keeps > >>engaging me in these python vs. ruby wars and he recently submitted > >>the challenge to me to > >> > >>"Write a fully featured REPL for ruby in 70 lines or less. > >>Furthermore, it can't be written in ruby." > > > > > > > > 'scuse my ignorance, but what's a REPL? > > > Read-Eval-Print-Loop. Basically something similar to our IRB, or the > interactive prompt of python or of lisp environments (and many others) > where you write stuff and that is immediately executed giving you the result > > -- Reyn Vlietstra