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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. 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]]
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