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   by idf 4y ago

   Thank you! There's a lot of Scheme-ish things available: setters, templates (aka macros but with changeable quoting: ` ' @), continuations. I've added a few more tricks: computed variables (like SECONDS or RANDOM which dynami
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   by idf 4y ago

   :( It's from the Greek 'idios' meaning own, private. From that the etymology suggests ignorance and from that low intelligence giving us the modern derivation of idiot (and any attendant socio-cultural associations). Here I&
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   by idf 4y ago

   Author here. Yes, regular job control is available interactively. Note that I'm interested in making scripting work better so I've made little to no attempt to ease interactive use (there are plenty of better alternatives for inte
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   by idf 4y ago

   Author here. Note to self: don't hold yourself hostage to Betteridge's law! I wouldn't disagree but it's quite a jump from where we are today to an execvj(path, json) and whatever form retrieving/reconstructing the
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   Idio by Example(idio-lang.org)

   30 points by idf 4y ago|12 comments
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   by idf 5y ago

   Hi HN, I got fed up of my SysAdmin "solutions", which always started life in the shell, running commands, being forced into Perl/Python because I needed to use an even slightly complex data structure or interface with some li
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   Show HN: Idio, a Programmable Shell(idio-lang.org)

   6 points by idf 5y ago|1 comments