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FORTH comes to mind.

by agoetz 13y ago

616c 13y ago
Cool. No idea FORTH had a REPL. Do you use FORTH or have cool project examples?
- wolfgke 13y ago
  FORTH had (and has) a REPL.
- pgeorgi 13y ago
  OpenFirmware, such as the various implementations on http://www.openbios.org/ http://www.openbios.org/ always comes with a Forth prompt. I was part of the team that wrote the original Open Source implementation (under GPL terms) named OpenBIOS. The project now also hosts all kinds of other implementations that were later published under BSD terms by their owners (and had 10+ years of market experience under their belt at that time). When FORTH started out, one of its differentiators was its live environment: you could test one step (part of an algorithm or similar) at the prompt, then define a "word" (= function) that implements it using the statements you tried, repeat until you finished your program using the words you defined earlier.
  - agumonkey 13y ago
    The only time you're happy to reboot a machine is when it has OpenFirmware Forth so you can play a bit with it.
- lbruder 13y ago
  Forth not only has a REPL, but an incremental compiler, too. Have a look at http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/index.html http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/index.html, you'll be amazed what Forth has to offer! Interactive microcontroller debugging is every bit as fun as it sounds :)
  - wiml 13y ago
    Do you have any favorite compact Forth implementations for AVRs? Each time I find myself writing a configuration-and-introspection parser for a microcontroller project I think to myself, "I should just expose a REPL here", and FORTH is the obvious choice, but I've never had the time to dig through the many AVR FORTH implementations out there for the right one.
    - lbruder 13y ago
      AmForth (http://amforth.sourceforge.net/ http://amforth.sourceforge.net/) is my current favorite, but like with Linux distros, my tastes are somewhat floating. So I'm writing my own little weekend Forth just for playing around ;)

FORTH comes to mind.

by agoetz 13y ago

FORTH comes to mind.

616c 13y ago

Cool. No idea FORTH had a REPL. Do you use FORTH or have cool project examples?

wolfgke 13y ago
FORTH had (and has) a REPL.
pgeorgi 13y ago
OpenFirmware, such as the various implementations on http://www.openbios.org/ http://www.openbios.org/ always comes with a Forth prompt. I was part of the team that wrote the original Open Source implementation (under GPL terms) named OpenBIOS. The project now also hosts all kinds of other implementations that were later published under BSD terms by their owners (and had 10+ years of market experience under their belt at that time). When FORTH started out, one of its differentiators was its live environment: you could test one step (part of an algorithm or similar) at the prompt, then define a "word" (= function) that implements it using the statements you tried, repeat until you finished your program using the words you defined earlier.
- agumonkey 13y ago
  The only time you're happy to reboot a machine is when it has OpenFirmware Forth so you can play a bit with it.
lbruder 13y ago
Forth not only has a REPL, but an incremental compiler, too. Have a look at http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/index.html http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/index.html, you'll be amazed what Forth has to offer! Interactive microcontroller debugging is every bit as fun as it sounds :)
- wiml 13y ago
  Do you have any favorite compact Forth implementations for AVRs? Each time I find myself writing a configuration-and-introspection parser for a microcontroller project I think to myself, "I should just expose a REPL here", and FORTH is the obvious choice, but I've never had the time to dig through the many AVR FORTH implementations out there for the right one.
  - lbruder 13y ago
    AmForth (http://amforth.sourceforge.net/ http://amforth.sourceforge.net/) is my current favorite, but like with Linux distros, my tastes are somewhat floating. So I'm writing my own little weekend Forth just for playing around ;)