lacey@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (John Lacey) (07/29/89)
This coming fall I am going to embark on a programming project to build a UNIX shell based on a functional programming paradigm. My initial inclination is to build the shell from a Lisp interpreter/compiler---options so far include MIT Scheme, Yale T, and perhaps XScheme or the recently mentioned ELK embedded Scheme. The main purpose is to combine the command and programming languages of the environment into a single system. That is, the shell language would not only be similar to the programming language, it would _be_ the programming language. So far, I have found several references to similar projects, and I would like to find further references, as well as any comments about the project or the language that anyone might have. The most promising reference that I have is _fsh - A Functional UNIX Command Interpreter_, by Chris S. McDonald Univ. of Western Australia It appeared in Software: Practice and Experience, 17 (10) 685-700 (1987). If anyone knows more about this project, or has used a similar shell, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you. Thanks, -- John Lacey | cornell!batcomputer!lacey lacey@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu | lacey@crnlthry.bitnet