[squeak-dev] Squeak REPL (was Re: Windows, stdin, stdout)
Chris Muller
asqueaker at gmail.com
Mon Apr 9 00:13:52 UTC 2018
On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 3:28 PM, Benoit St-Jean via Squeak-dev
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org> wrote:
> Just to give my 2 cents on the subject, when I started this thread I was
> just asking for an easy way to have an interactive headless console
> application.
Start a server on localhost which can then accept commands from one or
more terminals or elsewhere. This is how Magma and many other
applications work. Multi-user and modal-less.
> Quite frankly, I never had the need to compile Smalltalk expressions from a
> prompt and I've never seen the benefits of it. If one wants to execute
> Smalltalk code, we do have the capability to do it by providing a script as
> an argument! Yes, it's quite nice to be able to do so when you want to show
> off how cool is Smalltalk but is there any *real* use for such a
> functionality? I doubt it!
+1.
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