>Surely there must be a usable shell wrapped around an actual modern language? AFAIK, the answer is no. I've spent a bit of time thinking about this problem an

>Surely there must be a usable shell wrapped around an actual modern language? AFAIK, the answer is no. I've spent a bit of time thinking about this problem and my conclusion is that the things that make a shell nice to use interactively are the same things that make it bad as a programming language. Rc may be as close as we will ever get to it.