On Saturday, 29 March 2014 20:59:19 UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
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>
> - The new REPL, is pretty clean, simple Julia code. Seriously – terminal
> support<https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/Terminals.jl>,
> line
> editing<https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/LineEdit.jl>,
> and the REPL
> itself<https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/REPL.jl>are less
> than 2000 lines of code –
> *total*. This works out to a net code reduction of 33233 lines of code
> (GNU readline is 34640 lines of C), while *gaining* functionality.
> That has to be a project record.
> - The new code is infinitely easier to modify, fix and improve, so
> REPL-replated bugs will probably get fixed lickety split going forward.
>
> TIL infinity is approximately 33/2. Seriously though, that's amazing.
Well done guys!
