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SHCL – An unholy union of Posix shell and Common Lisp

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Re: SHCL – An unholy union of Posix shell and Common Lisp

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Unix? Unity?

Pun for “union” most likely. It’s punny because it is part of a Unix. The original title is union I think though.

  It’s punny because it is part of a Unix.
I see what you did there. Nice :-).

Re: SHCL – An unholy union of Posix shell and Common Lisp

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Anybody remember scsh? Seems a better integration of the shell and Lisp bits if you ask me (although this is a neat hack, don't get me wrong).

scsh was definitely awesome, and it's not really practical in Common Lisp[0], due to Lisp's unfortunate choice to upcase all symbols. Made sense at the time, but in retrospect I think it was a mistake.

It's a real pity that Franz's modern mode[1] didn't become more popular.

[0]: it's possible, just ugly as hell because either one would have stuff like (|ls| |etc|) or one would have stuff like (|LENGTH| …).

[1]: https://franz.com/support/tech_corner/modern.mode.lhtml

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