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From: jeff@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Monopoly = Success
Message-ID: <DxJLB7.1nG.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <50uh75$1vr@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <50v980$e19@nic.wat.hookup.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 00:28:18 GMT
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In article <50v980$e19@nic.wat.hookup.net> schaffer@wat.hookup.net writes:
>In <50uh75$1vr@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, shrager@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Jeff Shrager) writes:
>
>>(Optional 3. Have a version that runs like (I really hate to have to
>>say this) perl/awk/sed: like you type: lisp foo.lsp to the shell and
>>it just does what's in foo.lsp without bothering you.  (This is both
>>very useful, and, I think, required to get unix users out of their
>>wedgedness about PERL, which is evil incarnate.))
>
>If the lisp interpreter would skip ove a first line starting with # this could
>already be done with current Unix mechanisms.

Many Lisps let you do something like this:

  lisp -load foo

which is pretty close.

-- jd
