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diff --git a/shells/scsh/DESCR b/shells/scsh/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c4464518c2d --- /dev/null +++ b/shells/scsh/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Scsh is a Unix shell in that is has significant syntax extensions to +make writing Unix shell scripts easy (constructing pipelines, setting +I/O redirection, conditional execution etc.). It also offers access to +lower-level functionality like all Posix system calls, TCP/IP sockets +and a full-featured regular expression library. This is embedded into +a general-purpose programming language with real data types, +extensive, syntactically clean control constructs and "real" quoting +rules. + +Scsh is also a full implementation of R4RS Scheme with some +non-standard behavior (required for scripting). As a result, a wide +variety of existing Scheme code can be used. + +The underlying Scheme implementation is a virtual machine for compact +byte code. |