newRPL - build 1255 released! [updated to 1299]

[Claudio L.]

(06-30-2018 11:19 AM)pier4r Wrote:  Dropping an idea for the distant future.

new RPL console interface (of course only for batch processing, given a written input) for headless systems (ex: virtual private servers).

Distant past you mean?
The very first interface newRPL had was a simple console interface (back in 2014). When the firmware for the calculator was developed, we finally moved on to a simulator that could show the actual screen more faithfully.
The standalone RPL compiler that we now use as part of the build process is actually a stripped down version of that original console application, in which the interaction with the user was removed, and it merely compiles and saves a program (but the newRPL core is complete, would be trivial to EVAL the compiled program rather than save it). The standalone compiler has all RPL code removed from the core (to avoid a chicken-egg problem: you would need an RPL compiler to compile the RPL compiler), but that's easily changed with a compiler flag.