Paul Wilson wrote:
> (John Ellis?) did a Lisp shell several years ago, where any
> unbound function name was assumed to be an indication that
> the programmer meant to call a UNIX program. [...]
I thought (I'm about 800 miles from my Scsh docs ...) Olin explicitly
wrote about this in his document (in the Tao section?). I agree with
Olin on this front. One of the reasons I would even be interested in
this command system is to integrate the two environments cleanly. To
then make commands dependent on the environment strikes me as a stride
in the wrong direction.
To resolve the situation, I could live with the language _defaulting_
in the other direction (ie, unless stated otherwise, the Unix
namespace is used), but even this strikes me as undesirable.
Personally, I know that if I could combine the two environments, most
of what I run would, in fact, be from the Scheme environment (much of
it, undoubtedly, chaining off eventually to something from Unix), and
the number of actual raw Unix commands I would use would be few.
Kolmogorov strikes.
'shriram
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