Package: wnpp Owner: "Robert S. Edmonds" <edmonds@debian.org> Severity: wishlist * Package name : c-repl Version : 0.0.20071223 Upstream Author : Evan Martin * URL : http://neugierig.org/software/c-repl/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, Ruby Description : read-eval-print loop for C Many programming languages come with a REPL (read-eval-print loop), which allows you to type in code line by line and see what it does. This is quite useful for prototyping, experimentation, and debugging code. . Other programming languages, and especially C, use a "compile-run" model, and don't provide a REPL. Let's fix that. . This approach is actually more of a read-eval loop, as c-repl doesn't know anything about the types and parse trees of the code it's running. But unlike other approaches to solving the "C interpreter" problem, c-repl works directly with unmodified libraries and system headers. . This means you can experiment with a new library without writing a test program or any bindings. Or just use it as a simple calculator, content in knowing it is much faster than your neighbors using irb, like driving a Ferarri on city streets. -- Robert Edmonds edmonds@debian.org
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