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That's not interactive at all. Going by the definition used we can say every compiler is interactive since you can just dump the object code after compiling the
by dkarapetyan 12y ago
That's not interactive at all. Going by the definition used we can say every compiler is interactive since you can just dump the object code after compiling the source code.
- mattgodbolt 12y agoAbsolutely: in fact the original "version" of GCC Explorer was inspired by me having a window with 'watch "g++ -O2 -S foo.cpp"' running next to the vi editor I was tweaking code with. I reckon that's pretty interactive: you make a change and see the result (almost) straight away.
- dkarapetyan 12y agoWe have different definitions of interactive then. Smalltalk is interactive. Dr. Racket is interactive. This is just a pipeline.