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Schemesh: Fusion between Unix shell and Lisp REPL
A Unix shell and Lisp REPL, fused together. Contribute to cosmos72/schemesh development by creating an account on GitHub.
For scripting and serious programming, schemesh completely replaces the slow, clumsy and error-prone scripting language of a traditional shell (yes, the author has opinions) with a full-featured Lisp REPL, backed by the fast and open-source Chez Scheme compiler that generates highly optimized native code. You can mix shell command execution with Lisp control structures, loops and functions as for example: instead of typical shell syntax, which is error prone as it's based on string expansion and splitting, and geared toward command execution, as for example:
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