Contents

    1  Introduction

    2  Unix shells

    3  Process notation
        3.1  Extended process forms and i/o redirections
        3.2  Process forms
        3.3  Using extended process forms in Scheme
        3.4  Procedures and special forms
        3.5  Interfacing process output to Scheme

    4  System calls

    5  The Tao of Scheme and Unix

    6  I/O

    7  Lexical issues

    8  Implementation

    9  Size

    10  Systems programming in Scheme
        10.1  Exceptions and robust error handling
        10.2  Automatic storage management
        10.3  Return values and procedural composition
        10.4  Strings
        10.5  Higher-order procedures
        10.6  S-expression syntax and backquote

    11  Other programming languages
        11.1  Functional languages
        11.2  Shells
        11.3  New-generation scripting languages

    12  Future work
        12.1  Command language features
        12.2  Little languages

    13  Conclusion

    14  Acknowledgements

    References

    Notes