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The same can be told of the REPL environments of Smalltalk, Interlisp-D, Lisp Machines, Mesa/Cedar and Oberon.

All more powerful than UNIX shell languages while using structured data.

Coming from Spectrum, MS-DOS and Amiga, the UNIX shell seemed powerful until I discovered how the development workstation should look like, from the eyes of Xerox PARC.




At which point you switched to emacs and never looked back? (-:

Amiga REXX should have militated against that view of Unix shells slightly.




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