On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 05:43:03PM -0400, sean finney wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 08:41:35PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>> The scsh install library contains the code necessary to install scsh >> packages not packaged as Debian packages, or to build Debian packages >> of scsh packages. > it might be nice to say in the description a little more about what > exactly scsh is, for those of us who are unenlightened :) The idea was that people that don't know scsh are not interested in this package. The scsh package contains a - largely perfectible - description. But here you go: SCSH, the SCheme SHell, is a better shell scripting language. It is totally incompatible with /bin/sh, but (thanks to that) doesn't feature most of the traps that /bin/sh-programming does: filenames with spaces will just work, the glob pattern ".*" does _not_ include "." and "..", it features a _scoped_ (having effect only in the current code block) "change working directory" command, etc, etc, etc. SCSH is made of R5RS scheme (the scheme48 implementation), with bindings for (nearly all of) POSIX added, a special notation for process definitions (pipes, redirections, ...), text processing features similar to AWK and much more. Scheme is a clean and minimal dialect of the Lisp programming language. -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
