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Re:Xonsh, a Python-ish, Bash-compatible shell language and c... by pjmlp on Monday March 16, 2015 @05:23AM (#9210509)
> Shell scripting languages are famously obtuse and underpowered, and we've thought about how to cleanly merge shell scripting with a real language.

It was called REPL (Interlisp-D, Lisp Machine, Cedar, Oberon), Workspace (Smalltalk), but then UNIX won.

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