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Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017) by pjmlp on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:31AM (#26791294)
Powershell is great, it is the closest of the REPL experience from Xerox PARC, Lisp Machines and ETHZ workstations.

The experience could be replicated in UNIX shells, but noone sems to care to actually go down that path.

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Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017) by TeMPOraL on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:03AM (#26791602)
I feel that the closest we can get to a Lisp machine with modern components right now would be to get PowerShell, Emacs and StumpWM (or EXWM) to deeply interoperate.
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Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017) by ticviking on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @10:57AM (#26793049)
I mean it's possible to run PowerShell on Linux, but PowerShell has some pretty significant rough edges, including a pretty painful performance story for something I want to use as a UI.
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Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017) by pjmlp on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:32PM (#26798852)
It is also a matter of culture, as mentioned you could have a UNIX shell being structured, able to directly interact with shared objects, IPC with running applications, yet very few do it.
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