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Agree in full! (Score:1)

by frew (9054) on 2009.01.28 14:27 (#67080) Homepage

I looked all over the place to find a solid replacement for irb in the perl world and there really just isn't something like it. I must assume that the reason is that perl people are generally more ok with doing things with perl -e, but the tab completion in irb is enough to make me never want to leave ruby.

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  by masak (6289)
  
  I looked all over the place to find a solid replacement for irb in the perl world and there really just isn't something like it. I must assume that the reason is that perl people are generally more ok with doing things with perl -e, but the tab completion in irb is enough to make me never want to leave ruby.
  You, sir, have understood the point of my post. Now, let's make sure we get tab completion by Christmas. And all the other good stuff.

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