Re:PilOS – A Stand-Alone Operating System
by giancarlostoro on Friday June 19, 2015 @07:09PM
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I thought about having a shell that is lisp based for Linux, as a way of forcing myself to use lisp more often, since I'm on and off with it. Though running things like apt-get and such would be interesting (sudo (apt-get (install racket chromium-browser))) or so
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Re:PilOS – A Stand-Alone Operating System
by icebraining on Friday June 19, 2015 @07:41PM
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One of the (many) lisp-like shells is Scsh (http://scsh.net/), which incidentally also has the best acknowledgments page by an open source project: http://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html
Though I believe your example would just be written as
(sudo apt-get install racket chromium-browser)It would be great to have Scsh as an installable package for the major Linux distributions? For example, on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS it exists but is not installable, says something about "unresolvable dependencies". Don't know about other distributions.
Then, there was an effort to port Scsh to the GNU Scheme, but the work was lost or abandoned somehow if I understood it correctly.
For people spending a lot of time on with Unix shell(s), a great Lisp/Scheme shell might have been the entering point. But somehow the great work that has been done at the beginning cannot be brought to masses.
It's a pitty.
14.10+ checking in here, it's very much installable.
Re:PilOS – A Stand-Alone Operating System
by npatrick04 on Friday June 19, 2015 @10:39PM
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Thanks for the link to the acknowledgements.