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> It's a lot easier to have a language where you type commands and the machine follows them. It's known as "shell". It's opposite to programming.
by brutt 7y ago
> It's a lot easier to have a language where you type commands and the machine follows them.
It's known as "shell". It's opposite to programming.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoNo, it's known as a Read-Eval-Print Loop, or REPL. "Shell" is a kind of REPL for a kind of language, both being optimized to minimize typing required to execute commands and string them together in a pipe. It's good at its job, but it's poor general REPL. Proper programming REPLs are very powerful and very useful tools, to the point I'm pretty unhappy when I have to work in a language without one.