From: Helder Ribeiro <helder@...>
Date: 2007-01-22T11:20:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby text editor for beginner

Jonathan Allen wrote:
>
> I'm willing to bet that most of them don't understand how to effectively
> use a REPL loop, and that's fine if you look at it from their
> perspective.

That's exactly right. I'm good using REPL for simple scripting, but I
can't think of a good way to use it for bigger things. Could you point
me (us) out some reading on how to use it for serious development?

> There is also the familiarity aspects. People coming from a non-REPL
> background often look at it and ask, "Ok, now how do I save my program?"
> or "Do I really have to retype my last 30 lines to fix that little bug
> in method foo?".

Those are the very first questions that come to my mind, indeed. What
are the answers? 


Cheers,

Helder