I know you're joking, but I would really like to have the Haskell type system in my shell with suitably-typed versions of the standard utilities: sed, awk, grep, etc.
I tried asking #haskell on freenode about "using ghci as a shell" and everybody thought it was a horrible idea. Oh well :(
If what most people thought were always the way taken we wouldn't have any of the great things we have today. In other words: try using it as a shell anyway, write the needed pieces of infrastructure, and share the results! :)
(There are people who've done work in this direction, but none of them haven't broken out to any significant amount of followers.)
I'm programming-language-curious. I tried Haskell and read a lot about perl6.
Haskell melts my brain. Maybe it's getting better later, I tried about 3 days.
perl6 - sigils are still there (even more of them) and overall feeling is not that different from perl5 despite such great improvements as named function parameters :)
xelxebar|8 years ago
I tried asking #haskell on freenode about "using ghci as a shell" and everybody thought it was a horrible idea. Oh well :(
kreetx|8 years ago
(There are people who've done work in this direction, but none of them haven't broken out to any significant amount of followers.)
zerr|8 years ago
ilyash|8 years ago
Haskell melts my brain. Maybe it's getting better later, I tried about 3 days.
perl6 - sigils are still there (even more of them) and overall feeling is not that different from perl5 despite such great improvements as named function parameters :)