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No need to defend or provide any sympathy because I find Devel::REPL to be a great REPL and it fulfils all my needs. I've used REPL's in Ruby (irb), Io, Rakudo
by draegtun 16y ago
No need to defend or provide any sympathy because I find Devel::REPL to be a great REPL and it fulfils all my needs. I've used REPL's in Ruby (irb), Io, Rakudo and Clojure and IMHO Devel::REPL is no where near the bottom of this list!
BTW, a couple of points:
* Zoidberg is a shell clone (ala Bash, Korn, csh, zsh) and is more akin to projects/products like psh (http://sourceforge.net/projects/psh http://sourceforge.net/projects/psh). While there are overlaps Zoidberg isn't really a full REPL (like Devel::REPL, PerlConsole or even Perl::Shell).
* Devel::REPL started as a blog post in April 2007 (http://chainsawblues.vox.com/library/post/a-perl-read-excute-print-loop-repl.html http://chainsawblues.vox.com/library/post/a-perl-read-excute...). It may have been called version 1.0 but it was just an proof of concept at this time.