The infamous SCSH Scheme shell "Acknowledgements"

I had the pleasure of being one of Olin's undergraduate students in his also infamous compilers course. We even worked together on a paper for a Scheme conference back in 2004. Anyways, one of the things I will always remember him say to a group of students: "There are no stupid questions, only stupid students." And he always started a class with a story about his college days. Great guy.

He also once wrote: "Enough of this last-minute, stay-of-execution, midnight-phone-call-from-the-governor stuff. Throw the switch and let's fry this thing." https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-1/mail-archive/msg00077.html Also: “First, do you understand the difference between a dissertation and a thesis? A thesis is an idea. A dissertation is a document that supports your thesis. After you write your dissertation explaining why your thesis is a good one, you have to stand up in front of a crowd and defend it -- the…

I use scsh every day, not interactively but the scripts that implement my workflow are written in scsh. I don't change them all that often but when have to tweak something or add a command it's an absolute delight. Imagine -- a shell language with decent power of abstraction. Here's the main script I use, as an example of practial scsh (I don't know if it would be considered idiomatic): https://github.com/plesner/scsh/blob/master/ash

I had to look up if he's ok, three decades later. It appears so: https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/people/olin-shivers/ and https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/923911.