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The Scheme Shell (2006)

61 points by smartmic 7y ago

ronbrz 7y ago
God, The Scsh reference manual has my favorite acknowledgements section in all of media. I urge all of you to read this. https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html
- capital_guy 7y ago
  Olin Shivers was by far the best professor I had in college. Amazing communicator complemented by a great sense of humor
- dreamcompiler 7y ago
  I'm proud to be able to call myself a FOO (Friend of Olin.) Not only is he a fine human being, but if you talk to him for 20 minutes you'll learn a couple of years worth of computer science.
  - ronbrz 7y ago
    I'm jealous! He was my first year computer science teacher, probably the person who most instilled love for functional programming in me. I still at some point want to go back to take a compilers class with him someday. Until then, while you are a FOO I'll be at the BAR :p
- throwaway671239 7y ago
  I have to agree that Olin is a very funny writer but these days I unfortunately find it hard to keep a positive opinion of him as a person because I have heard multiple allegations about regarding sexism and inappropriate behavior towards students from his part.
- eismcc 7y ago
  If that were written today there’d be hardcore consequences.
JimmyRuska 7y ago
Checkout rash for Racket + Bash https://rash-lang.org/ https://rash-lang.org/
- chubot 7y ago
  To add on: there are shell-ish DSLs for most Lisps here, which includes Racket, Clojure, Common Lisp, Scheme, etc. https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/ExternalResources https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/ExternalResources
- seisvelas 7y ago
  Totally agree. I really feel like Racket has earned my love.
dredmorbius 7y ago
Is this packaged for any distros named Debian by any chance? apt search scsch and apt search scheme provide little joy. ... hrm, apparently oldstable (jessie) only: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=scsh https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=scsh
- dleslie 7y ago
  Chicken is on Debian and has an egg that provides most of the scsh functionality.
  - dredmorbius 7y ago
    First I've heard of those tools. I am ... amused.

61 points by smartmic 7y ago

God, The Scsh reference manual has my favorite acknowledgements section in all of media. I urge all of you to read this. https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html

capital_guy 7y ago
Olin Shivers was by far the best professor I had in college. Amazing communicator complemented by a great sense of humor
dreamcompiler 7y ago
I'm proud to be able to call myself a FOO (Friend of Olin.) Not only is he a fine human being, but if you talk to him for 20 minutes you'll learn a couple of years worth of computer science.
- ronbrz 7y ago
  I'm jealous! He was my first year computer science teacher, probably the person who most instilled love for functional programming in me. I still at some point want to go back to take a compilers class with him someday. Until then, while you are a FOO I'll be at the BAR :p
throwaway671239 7y ago
I have to agree that Olin is a very funny writer but these days I unfortunately find it hard to keep a positive opinion of him as a person because I have heard multiple allegations about regarding sexism and inappropriate behavior towards students from his part.
eismcc 7y ago
If that were written today there’d be hardcore consequences.

JimmyRuska 7y ago

Checkout rash for Racket + Bash https://rash-lang.org/ https://rash-lang.org/

chubot 7y ago
To add on: there are shell-ish DSLs for most Lisps here, which includes Racket, Clojure, Common Lisp, Scheme, etc. https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/ExternalResources https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/ExternalResources
seisvelas 7y ago
Totally agree. I really feel like Racket has earned my love.

dredmorbius 7y ago

Is this packaged for any distros named Debian by any chance? apt search scsch and apt search scheme provide little joy. ... hrm, apparently oldstable (jessie) only: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=scsh https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=scsh

dleslie 7y ago
Chicken is on Debian and has an egg that provides most of the scsh functionality.
- dredmorbius 7y ago
  First I've heard of those tools. I am ... amused.