Extensible Shell

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Extensible Shell definition

operating system
(es) A Unix shell written by Byron Rakitzis and Paul Haahr , derived from rc. Es has real functions, closures, exceptions and lets you redefine most internal shell operations.
Version: 0.84.
(ftp://ftp.sys.utoronto.ca/pub/es/).
["Es - A Shell with Higher Order Functions", P. Haahr et al, Proc Winter 1993 Usenix Technical Conference].
(1993-04-30)

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