After updating to latest master and recompiling julia, firing up a terminal 
and doing "julia" gives a user experience that is comparable to "python" in 
speed (i.e. both are ready to roll in less than a second), and the Julia 
REPL has a bunch of nice colors. I call that a win =)

This is great work indeed!

// Tomas

On Monday, March 31, 2014 2:38:48 PM UTC+2, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>
> Hey, in networking protocols, infinity is often 15.
>
> On Mar 31, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Job van der Zwan 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
> On Saturday, 29 March 2014 20:59:19 UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>>
>>
>>    - 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!
>
>

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