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Another example of using a Scheme for scripting is scsh, the Scheme Shell. The last update was in 2006, but it's (in)famous for the acknowledgements section wr
by rudolfwinestock 5y ago
Another example of using a Scheme for scripting is scsh, the Scheme Shell.
The last update was in 2006, but it's (in)famous for the acknowledgements section written by Olin Shivers.
Who should I thank? My so-called ``colleagues,'' who laugh at me behind my back, all the while becoming famous on *my* work? My worthless graduate students, whose computer skills appear to be limited to downloading bitmaps off of netnews? My parents, who are still waiting for me to quit ``fooling around with computers,'' go to med school, and become a radiologist? My department chairman, a manager who gives one new insight into and sympathy for disgruntled postal workers?
My God, no one could blame me—no one!—if I went off the edge and just lost it completely one day. I couldn't get through the day as it is without the Prozac and Jack Daniels I keep on the shelf, behind my Tops-20 JSYS manuals. I start getting the shakes real bad around 10am, right before my advisor meetings. A 10 oz. Jack 'n Zac helps me get through the meetings without one of my students winding up with his severed head in a bowling-ball bag. They look at me funny; they think I twitch a lot. I'm not twitching. I'm controlling my impulse to snag my 9mm Sig-Sauer out from my day-pack and make a few strong points about the quality of undergraduate education in Amerika.
If I thought anyone cared, if I thought anyone would even be reading this, I'd probably make an effort to keep up appearances until the last possible moment. But no one does, and no one will. So I can pretty much say exactly what I think.
Oh, yes, the *acknowledgements*. I think not. I did it. I did it all, by myself.
https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html
- JHonaker 5y agoI really hope that's a very odd joke. This makes me extremely sad for this person.
- bjoli 5y agoThis is one of those before-columbine jokes. Olin likes writing, obviously, and I suspect he started with "I did it. I did it all, by myself" and found a way to get there.
- rubicks 5y agoI came here to see this. I used to hack scsh scripts in grad school, back when I was entirely too obsessed with functional languages. It's weird shell, but fun to use if you like that kind of thing.
- bjoli 5y agoI still use it with scheme48. Mostly for the process notation (which you can get in chicken these days). Lisp are in a great place where you can extend syntax to the problem domain. This means that you can bolt on a system like this and it feels just like home.
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