Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
Funny this should come up. We've just had several submissions to work
on a functional shell for the google summer of code.
Here's a bit of a summary of what's been done in Haskell I prepared a
while back.
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~pls/thesis-topics/functionalshell.html
Looking at the brief description of the Esther shell, I was struck by the
question - why not just use Haskell directly ie by extending something like
GHCi to allow interactive definition of functions/values and an operator to
map filenames to functions.
I was reminded of
http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/byte_aug81/design_principles_behind_smalltalk.html
and in particular the following principle:
Operating System:
An operating system is a collection of things
that don't fit into a language.
There shouldn't be one.
Regards, Brian.
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