Why Create a New Unix Shell?

Re:Why Create a New Unix Shell? by racer-v on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @07:11PM (#16278741)

Anything that supports pipes and signals, and is easy to install. I've started using Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) because it's the default implementation used with the Roswell installer.

https://github.com/roswell/roswell

(As a side-note: Perl 5 was really the ideal language for this, by design; we might be in a different world today if it hadn't been derailed by Perl Forever^W 6).

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Re:Why Create a New Unix Shell? by NoGravitas on Thursday February 01, 2018 @08:04AM (#16281553)

I mean, Perl 5 wasn't actually ideal for this, but it was better suited to the task than anything else that actually exists.

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Re:Why Create a New Unix Shell? by jdoege on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:43PM (#16361918)

Perl 6 actually exists and has a REPL which Perl 5 lacked.

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