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- From: jinx@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Guillermo J. Rozas)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
- Subject: Re: (none)
- Message-ID: <JINX.92Sep1211746@rolex.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 01:17:46 GMT
- References: <9209011326.AA03050@outmail.microsoft.com>
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- Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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- In-reply-to: brianbec@microsoft.COM's message of 1 Sep 92 13:25:25 GMT
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- In article <9209011326.AA03050@outmail.microsoft.com> brianbec@microsoft.COM (Brian Beckman) writes:
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- | >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).
-
- Scheme syntax is a little to inconvenient for some of these
- operations.
-
- What I often do is write a scheme program to generate a script which I
- then hand to my shell, or DOS, or whatever.
-