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50 lines
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%&latex -*- latex -*-
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\chapter{Todo}
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There are always many, many improvements and extensions that could be
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made to scsh.
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We invite interested hackers to do any of them, and send us the code;
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we'll put you on the team.
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Visit the Scheme Underground Web page for more information on good hacks at
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\begin{tightinset}\verb|http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/su/|
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\end{tightinset}
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Scsh is a tool that lets you write fun programs that do real things in
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an elegant language; go wild.
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\begin{itemize}
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\item Threads.
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\item An X gui interface. (Needs threads.)
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\item A better C function/data-structure interface. This is not easy.
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\item More network protocols. Telnet and ftp would be the most important.
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\item An ILU interface.
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\item An RPC system, with ``tail-recursion.''
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\item Interfaces to relational db's.
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This would be quite useful for Web servers.
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An s-expression embedding of SQL would be a key design component
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of such a system, along the lines of scsh's process notation or
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\ex{awk} notation.
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\item Port Edwin, and emacs text editor written in MIT Scheme, to scsh.
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Combine it with scsh's OS interfaces to make a visual shell.
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\item An \ex{expect} knock-off.
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\item A \ex{make} replacement, using scsh's process notation in the build
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rules.
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\item Manual hacking.
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\begin{itemize}
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\item The {\LaTeX} hackery needs yet another serious pass. Most importantly,
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long procedure ``declarations'' need to be broken across two lines.
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\item Soup up the markup processor, and redo manual in markup. Generate
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{\LaTeX}, HTML, and info versions. Alternatively, persuade some kind
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soul to hand-port manual to HTML or info.
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\end{itemize}
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\item Job control, after \ex{jcontrol.scm}
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\item Better static heap linker.
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\item Gnu readline lib.
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\end{itemize}
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