LinksPL, shells, and the non-PL parts
Phil Wadler posted some comments by Warren Harris,
expressing the desire to make the Links Programming Language at least partially be a better shell.
The discussion reminded me of, and later mentioned, the "es" shell. I wrote up a Unix shells survey a couple of years ago, that mentioned "es".
So I think I'll start referring to that new language as LinksPL instead of just "Links". I'm hoping that people pick up on that and thus create a decently google-able word for it. We'll see.
I've been spending a small amount of my hobby time setting up a server on my old spare desktop Mac. I've been appalled at the percentage of time, effort, setup, and hair-pulling lore that's all concerned with configuration and deployment rather than actual programming. So that's my wish for LinksPL -- that the language should handle those aspects of web apps cleanly.
I hope that Harris' wishes for a shell language and mine for a complete web app creator aren't just symptoms of LinksPL turning into a wishlist dump. Hopefully we'll see a clarified vision after next month's meeting.
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