I thought about having a shell that is lisp based for Linux, as a way of forcing...

icebraining · on June 19, 2015

One of the (many) lisp-like shells is Scsh (http://scsh.net/), which incidentally also has the best acknowledgments page by an open source project: http://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html

Though I believe your example would just be written as

  (sudo apt-get install racket chromium-browser)

reirob · on June 20, 2015

It would be great to have Scsh as an installable package for the major Linux distributions? For example, on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS it exists but is not installable, says something about "unresolvable dependencies". Don't know about other distributions.

Then, there was an effort to port Scsh to the GNU Scheme, but the work was lost or abandoned somehow if I understood it correctly.

For people spending a lot of time on with Unix shell(s), a great Lisp/Scheme shell might have been the entering point. But somehow the great work that has been done at the beginning cannot be brought to masses.

It's a pitty.

henesy · on June 20, 2015

14.10+ checking in here, it's very much installable.

npatrick04 · on June 20, 2015

Thanks for the link to the acknowledgements.

S4M · on June 19, 2015

You can use eshell in emacs. It allows you run elisp commands.