Can your REPL do this?

Still waiting for a REPL that could what Lisp Machines could do in the early 80s -- namely integrate graphics with object-specific behavior.<p><a href="http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6946" rel="nofollow">http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6946</a><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_Interface_Manager" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_Interface_Manager</a><p><a href="http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/~r.f.moeller/uims-clim/clim-intro.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/~r.f.moeller/uims-clim/clim-int...</a>

Factor's REPL can handle images, colours and fonts:<p><a href="http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2010/09/visual-repl.html" rel="nofollow">http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2010/09/visual-repl.html</a><p>I've been meaning to write something like Factor's REPL for Clojure, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

I don't get this. Someone wrote a bunch of cute Lisp functions that use Unicode and put them on a webpage?

I didn't find a decent/direct way to get to the code itself. This seems to be the repository that is mentioned/used in that text:<p><a href="https://github.com/whalliburton/academy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/whalliburton/academy</a><p>Edit: And someone who likes dead prez I certainly got a kick out of the hexagram examples. Haven't seen those for a while.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Prez" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Prez</a>

Yes. It was called BASIC and it came with my IBM PC XT in 1985.

Somebody showed me some shit Mathematica can do (by way of embedding images and live representations of data) that goes way beyond this and any other Lisp REPL I've seen, so let's not get too smug.<p>On another note, it's a pleasure to see a bit of the I Ching in there - in the classic Wilhelm/Baynes edition, no less. It is one of the greatest works of civilization. (As for Wilhelm/Baynes: how a translation of a translation could have turned out so well is a mystery. Putting it beside any other I Ching in English is like comparing a Monet to a daguerreotype.)

Well I learned something new. SBCL and CLISP seem to have good unicode support that work well with emacs+slime.

Racket <a href="http://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html</a>

Just to make sure I understand: in "Can your REPL do this?" the word "this" refers to printing Unicode characters, right?

DrRacket's REPL supports image literals. The racket language also includes functions for manipulating these. Take a look at this program: <a href="http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/6493/drracket.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/6493/drracket.jpg</a><p>In the "Definitions" pane at the top, we define three variables, <i>bruce-lee</i>, <i>energy-blast</i>, and <i>terrible-accident</i>. In the "Interations" pane at the bottom (here's the REPL), we compose them together.

<a href="https://github.com/whalliburton/academy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/whalliburton/academy</a><p>Since there's no link to the actual repo in that document.

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This is actually pretty cool. Shame about the title.

Wow. TRS-80 graphics.

To run the demos from SBCL: (require 'asdf) (asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op 'academy) (in-package :academy) (help)