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re: reddit vs. Reddit: the new CEO confirmed that they're going to switch to "Reddit": https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3fx2au/conte...

> If it doesn't run from the shell, it's not a shell.

I think you are using "shell" in two different ways in the sentence, and I don't think the resulting construct is true (I think you may be saying if it doesn't run in a text terminal its not a shell, but shells don't have to be terminals -- GUI shells are a thing.)

Re lowercase reddit, I actually submitted with lowercase, but it auto-corrected to Reddit :)

Yeah… that gets covered in quite a bit of detail here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10194274

I think you might be interested in: https://github.com/ianpreston/redditfs

Your unix shell isn't the only shell that exists :)

Fine, make it run from cmd.exe or command.com. Just not a browser.

Is a python repl not a shell? Haskell? Mysql?