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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl Shell
Keywords: psh pshaw
Message-ID: <6730@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 4 Jan 90 22:25:47 GMT
References: <4723@itivax.iti.org>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <4723@itivax.iti.org> scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
: 
: Just throwing out an idea -- anybody tried using perl as a shell?
: Psh = perl shell, pshaw = perl shell actually works?

Look at the file "perlsh" in the perl distribution directory.

To do a proper shell, the parser would have to be changed to do incremental
compilation and execute whenever there was something complete to execute.
You'd want better job control, and more concise ways to invoke programs.

But I still wouldn't want to use it as a shell.

Larry