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Ask HN: Ergonomy of line-oriented programs (like ed)
2 points by notagoodidea on June 16, 2023 | hide | past | favorite
I am currently asking myself besides `ed`[1] what are the CLI/line-oriented program existing and their ergonomic usage?

I know that may see weird at the time of extra big screens to look at teletype oriented programs but playing around with `ed` and also the `cmd` module of python's standard library [2] made me look around. I remembered turtle/Logo [3][4] also :)

Any other example to share? How different of a REPL those programs were at the end? A better name would be : Command Line-oriented interpreters?

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/ed/manual/ed_manual.html [2] https://docs.python.org/3.11/library/cmd.html [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)




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