A Scheme Shell

  • Authors:
  • O. Shivers

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • A Scheme Shell
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

Scsh is a new, portable Unix shell, which is embedded inside the Scheme programming language. This paper introduces the system, discusses its design principles, and compares it to traditional systems-programming languages, such as C and sh. The comparisons are intended to demonstrate that functional programming languages, such as Scheme, are excellent tools for systems programming.