Re: Perl, English, syntax for Scheme and shells (was Re: scsh in scm ...)

[Brent Benson <bwb@concentra.com>]

# Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 13:04:10 GMT
# From: meta@harlequin.co.uk (mathew)
# 
# > One thing I've been thinking about lately is that (again, rightly
# > or wrongly) people are willing to learn command languages that have
# > a very different syntax from normal programming languages
# 
# Absolutely.  I expect my interactive command language to have different
# syntax from the programming languages I use, because they serve very
# different purposes.

That may be so, but it sure would be nice to have a tighter
integration between my command language and my scripting language than
the Unix/DOS barrier of process and pipe.