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

[jeff@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)]

In article <4cgsk4$167@info.epfl.ch> "Stefan Monnier" 
<stefan.monnier@lia.di.epfl.ch> writes:
>In article <y5ag2dwxkmk.fsf@graphics.cs.nyu.edu>,
>David Fox <fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>] Could you elaborate?  What is it about what you look for and
>] expect from an interactive shell that requires a different syntax?
>] The examples you give show that the languages you use now happen
>] to have different syntaxes, but don't explain why they must be
>] different.
>
>I don't know for his personal reasons, but in my case there are a few:
>
>- every keystroke counts in interactive use

And parens and " are usually shift-characters.  I'm often tempted to
rebind some keys.

-- jd