Re:Why GNU Emacs?
by pjmlp on Monday February 15, 2016 @04:59AM
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No, every UNIX shell is a poor Read-Eval-Print-Loop when compared to what Xerox PARC machines allowed in terms of interaction with the running OS.
UNIX shells don't allow to call functions declared in .so, execute scripts applied to elements selected with the mouse, apply functional algorithms over data.
Well, you can write external commands in another programming language, but then it isn't a REPL anymore.
UNIX shells don't allow to call functions declared in .so, execute scripts applied to elements selected with the mouse, apply functional algorithms over data.
Well, you can write external commands in another programming language, but then it isn't a REPL anymore.