Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!bloom-beacon!A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU!Olin.Shivers From: Olin.Shivers@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme Subject: Lisp shells Message-ID: <8908160517.aa18074@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 16 Aug 89 09:16:39 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 John Lacey requested information on Lisp shells. John Ellis implemented a shell for a PDP-11/45 running Unix in Harvard Lisp in 1979. "A LISP SHELL" John R. Ellis ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 15 #5, May 1980 John Levine has a paper about using Lisp for a command language in the same issue of SIGPLAN Notices ("Why a Lisp-Based Command Language?"). Of course, you might do well to look into the Lisp Machine interface, both before and after the fancy Symbolics interface that allowed non-Lisp-syntax commands. Any you might consider gnu-emacs plus all the extensions (like monkey mode) to be a fairly reasonable shell, with lisp as an extension language. -Olin