[fpc-pascal] Any command line interpreters for Free Pascal?

[Jürgen Hestermann]

Andrew Pennebaker schrieb:
 > Adding shebangs to fpc wouldn't kill Pascal or compiled programming.

Of course not. It just binds man power to something useless (IMO).


 > It would welcome scripting programmers into the Pascal community, and 
let Pascal programmers write and test code more quickly.

More quickly? That sounds as if you never programmed in an integrated 
developement environment. How do you write scripts? With a text editor? 
Then you don't have a debugger at hand, no syntax highlighting, etc. And 
this lets you write code quick? Not for me.


 > Again, there's no need to fret about interpreted vs compiled.

I only don't get it why someone would like to write "scripts" instead of 
programs. Sounds quite masochistic. I know there are "real" script 
languages that live from a certain level of abstraction. But Pascal? 
That's a compiler language for fast programs.


 > Even for compiled languages, there are interpreted options.

But why?


 > Finally, adding scripting capability to a programming language allows 
coders to use a language to be used for shell scripts. If you love 
Pascal, you might want to write sysadmin tools in Pascal to automate 
your workflow.

I do that all the time. But they are all compiled executables that I can 
launch from any script. Why should I force a compiler run at each 
executable runtime?