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mattmight 58 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Dune Shell

"Think of it as an unholy combination of bash and Lisp" reminded me of Scheme Shell: https://scsh.net/

My Ph.D. advisor Olin Shivers created this. It's more pulling bash into Lisp than Lisp into bash.

It doesn't seem to be maintained anymore, but some of its ideas live on in Racket.

michaelsbradley 58 days ago | [–]

And now there’s Rash: The Reckless Racket Shell

http://rash-lang.org/

https://github.com/willghatch/racket-rash

nxobject 58 days ago | [–]

I’ve always wanted to ask about the notorious introduction to scsh’s manual… [1] could Olin have been less than 100% satirical there?

[1] https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html

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