On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 03:27:27AM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> Would the core team consider including a minimalist lisp in the base? e.g. 
> http://t3x.org/klisp/index.html

Hi. I am not the one to decide about such things but I have two cents
to drop.

I have skimmed the manual page for klisp and I suppose it does not
offer interface to system calls. In essence, it seems to be of same
usefullness as a Lisp interpreter written in, say, awk.

If I would want to propose any Lisp into the base system, I would
point at s9fes (Scheme 9 from Empty Space), also by Nils Holm. It is
bigger than klisp, but at least gives some Unix/POSIX functions to use
in the scripts. Also, it is Scheme, so in theory one can at least try
to make use of some freely available Scheme code from the net. Much
more useful in a Unix-like environment, I would say.

  http://t3x.org/s9fes/index.html

But I am not proposing - I have no idea how many people would find
this thing helpful in their life. As far as I know, there is not many
(it any) scripts in Scheme that cater to Unix users. If one would like
to have it on base, it is as easy as procuring shar archive which
takes care of compiling and installing this stuff when needed and
keeping it on some pendrive.

-- 
Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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