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- From: brianbec@microsoft.COM (Brian Beckman)
- Subject: (none)
- Message-ID: <9209011326.AA03050@outmail.microsoft.com>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:25:25 GMT
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- Guillermo writes:
- >| I'd like to be able to invoke small scheme programs from the shell and
- >| not have it take several seconds to load and occupy several megabytes
- >| of swap space.
- >| --
- >
- >I agree this would be nice to have, however, I try to use the shell as
- >little as possible :-).
-
- Why not just hook up a scheme environment to *ALL* the OS entry points
- and use scheme as your shell? You could even call it the "schell"
- or "schnell" :-). Dutch, German, or English pronunciation optional.
- This wouldn't be hard, especially with siod or xscheme. Get out the old
- man pages and just start typing. Or use some sort of dynamic linking.
- Siod is ineluctably going this way, in fact. Gjc just
- announced a new version (2.9) with hookups to more C runtime &
- OS entry points (some file I/O this time).
-
- =b=
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