Arjen van Weelden and Rinus Plasmeijer. A Functional Shell that Dynamically Combines Compiled Code. Currently under review by the 15th International Workshop on the Implementation of Functional Languages, IFL 2003, Scotland, September 10-13, 2003. pdf.
Now that the word Monad has appeared on a Microsoft-generated product, this must mean the world is at last ready for this concept. Not surprisingly, this work has already been done in a more innovative way by our friends at Nijmegen University (among others, such as the Scheme Shell, etc.).
This paper describes Esther, a functional shell built in Clean that allows the functionally-literate system administrator to build scripts that interact with the operating system using higher-order-functions, folds, etc.
The concept is being extended to an operating system called Hilde.
Posted to functional by Brent Fulgham on 11/11/03; 11:36:22 AM
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