I remember when I first started using Linux in 1996, there were several oddball shells that came with the distro in optional directories, I read their READMEs b

I remember when I first started using Linux in 1996, there were several oddball shells that came with the distro in optional directories, I read their READMEs but didn't even try to use them. The ones I remember most clearly were a clutch of them based on slightly different versions of BASIC (I don't remember what any of them were actually called) and Guile which was based on Scheme.