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A Lisp REPL as my main shell

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 Neidhardt, Pierre

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A Lisp REPL as my main shell
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The shell is dead, long live the REPL!
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The popular but aging shells (Bash and the like) suffer from many design flaws: lack of structured data, pipes are hard-to-debug blackboxes, lack of interactivity, while the user interfaces are mostly poor and limiting. High time we moved on away from this cruft, starting with a top-notch interactive language boasting full-fledged introspection and debugging. For this experiment I've used Common Lisp and SLY, a Common Lisp REPL and development environment for Emacs.