This is actually a major reason I'm interested in Sweet-Expressions,
myself. I'd like to use some form of Common Lisp as a shell, and it would
be kindof awkward to have to use parentheses for everything.
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 7:11 PM, David A. Wheeler <dwhee...@dwheeler.com>wrote:
> Ben Booth:
> > Hi,
> >This is my first post to this mailing list. It's great to see that there
> >is renewed activity on this project.
>
> I think so too. Welcome aboard!
>
> >I've been thinking about what a indentation-sensitive lisp-like language
> >might look like for the last several years, although my attempts at
> >writing a parser haven't produced any usable results yet.
>
> I know of a parser that you could try out :-).
>
> If you haven't yet, give our tutorial a whirl, which explains how to
> download and try it out:
> http://sourceforge.net/p/readable/wiki/Tutorial/
>
> > What i find most interesting about readable S-expressions is the
> > possibility of using a lisp-like language's REPL as an alternative to
> > BASH and other shell-scripting languages.
>
> That's definitely a possibility. I don't plan to purse this right now,
> but if anyone wants to give it a whirl, it should be an easy project to
> implement.
>
> > ... Anyway, thanks for all the effort! This is a very useful and
> interesting
> > project that i will be following closely.
>
> Excellent! If you have ideas/suggestions, please post. Code or
> documentation or website help would be appreciated, too.
>
> I have a TODO list here:
> http://sourceforge.net/p/readable/wiki/TODO/
> If you or anyone else sees something you'd be willing to do, please let us
> know!
>
> --- David A. Wheeler
>
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