A Lisp REPL as my main shell

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Shows an experiment replacing a traditional Unix shell with a Common Lisp REPL using SLY (the Common Lisp REPL and Emacs development environment). Describes problems with shells like Bash—no structured data, hard-to-debug pipes, limited interactivity—and demonstrates using Common Lisp’s introspection and debugging as an interactive, top‑level shell alternative.

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