<div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">       A question of my own: is there any written design (an academic paper would be perfect) of a functional shell language?</blockquote>

<div><br>A few: <a href="http://www.citeulike.org/user/spl/tag/shell">http://www.citeulike.org/user/spl/tag/shell</a><br><br>More resources: <a href="http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~pls/thesis-topics/functionalshell.html">http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~pls/thesis-topics/functionalshell.html</a><br>

<br>Regards,<br>Sean<br></div></div>