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Huh? Using a shell interactively is a REPL. REPL means Read-Eval-Print-Loop. That's what you do when you type commands to a bach/zsh/fish/nushell/... prompt. Bu
by Per_Bothner 3y ago
Huh? Using a shell interactively is a REPL. REPL means Read-Eval-Print-Loop. That's what you do when you type commands to a bach/zsh/fish/nushell/... prompt.
But it also how you type commands to a gnuplot or Mathematica or APL or Python or Lisp prompt.
Some REPLs have nicer interactive features (such a completion than others).
Some REPLs have nicer or more powerful syntax or different data types.
But as longs as you have a Read-Eval-Print-Loop it's a REPL.