I think that sweet-expressions (http://readable.sourceforge.net/ http://readable.sourceforge.net/) & CL-INTERPOL (http://weitz.de/cl-interpol/ http://weitz.de/c

I think that sweet-expressions (http://readable.sourceforge.net/ http://readable.sourceforge.net/) & CL-INTERPOL (http://weitz.de/cl-interpol/ http://weitz.de/cl-interpol/) could be the basis for a new kind of shell: let (foo bar) ls foo "bim/baz" ${foo} Might be turned into the equivalent of 'ls foo bim/baz bar' in sh. In fact, with a minimum of work I think this could be turned into a Lisp shell …