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::::: For major scripting languages (Perl, Python, Ruby), it's often assumed that API and CLI work together. To beat a dead horse, Python's if __name__=="__main__" is a much sought-after snippet (2,030,000 results in Google at last count). Coders want to know how to do this. I think they want to do this in other languages as well.

::::: For languages in the middle (Octave, Common Lisp, Chicken Scheme, Clojure), it's plumb difficult to achieve this behavior. IRC users refuse to help me, claiming that their language's REPL is infinitely better than shell. That may be, but I like to provide standard, POSIX, CLI interfaces whenever possible. It took me hours to wrestle working snippets--other coders shouldn't have to.

::::: For languages in the middle (Octave, Common Lisp, Chicken Scheme, Clojure), it's plumb difficult to achieve this behavior. Some languages can only partially do "scripted main"; they either require obscure shebangs (Clojure), or worse, require special commands in the shell (LLVM). If I don't add a runtime example for a language, that means that both "python scriptedmain.py" and "./scriptedmain.py" work as expected. IRC users refuse to help me, claiming that their language's REPL is infinitely better than shell. That may be, but I like to provide standard, POSIX, CLI interfaces whenever possible. It took me hours to wrestle working snippets--other coders shouldn't have to.

::::: I want to get back on IRC and chat with you guys. You seem interested, and rightly curious. In the mean time, feel free to twitter me at @mcandre. --[[User:Mcandre|Mcandre]]