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Subject: on the lish shell
From: Johanne Fairchild
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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 23:12 UTC

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From: jfairchild@tudado.org (Johanne Fairchild)
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Subject: on the lish shell
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 20:12:55 -0300
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Has anyone ever tried lish? It's a shell based in Common Lisp. It
looks nice, but also a bit unstable and likely with various corner
cases. Nevertheless, it does seem interesting for someone learning the
language because it will work as exercises in remembering procedure
names and syntax. By using it a lot, it should help to improve my Lisp.
Please share any experience with it if you have it.

Homepage:
https://github.com/nibbula/yew/tree/master/lish

Subject: Re: on the lish shell
From: Lawrence D'Oliv
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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:09 UTC
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Subject: Re: on the lish shell
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:09:57 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 20:12:55 -0300, Johanne Fairchild wrote:

> Has anyone ever tried lish?

Beshidesh shounding like you’ve had too mush to drink, there is a
fundamental problem with using a programming language as a shell/command
language: a command language assumes everything is a literal string unless
indicated otherwise, whereas a programming language (by which I include
some “scripting” languages) assumes everything is a language construct
unless quote characters indicate literal strings.

You quickly find out why command languages are designed that way, when you
try to use a programming language in their place.

A is for Apple. -- Hester Pryne

comp / comp.lang.lisp / on the lish shell

Subject	Author
on the lish shell	Johanne Fairchild
Re: on the lish shell	Lawrence D'Oliveiro