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Feels like a perfect tool for taco-bell style programming(googleable), and i think there needs to be more in this style.

Powershell for example has an IDE(MS style) that is damn helpful by providing breakpoints/intraspection but this sits at a lower/faster level for just inspecting the initial pipings.



Powershell is probably the closest shell to the REPL experience of Xerox PARC and ETHZ workstations.

UNIX shells could approximate it with support for shared objects, D-Bus/XPC/IPC, but few make use of it.


I'm interested to know how and in what ways the REPL experience in Xerox PARC and ETHZ workstations were enjoyable...Can you elaborate please or share some links?

I know that there is Nushell (1) that tries to re-do the concept of shell with ideas taken from Powershell.

[1]: https://github.com/nushell/nushell




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