Olin Shivers' Infamous Scsh Reference Manual

Those who enjoy this might also enjoy Shivers' Graduate Student's Guide to Automatic Weapons:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/autoweapons.html

I'm not competent to evaluate Shivers' mighty comp sci skills, but I'm in awe of this sentence:

The tragedy of Galois is that he could have contributed so much more to mathematics if he'd only spent more time on his marksmanship.

Olin writes many of his papers with an opening in the same spirit as that one. Its his way of ensuring that you pay attention to what he says next.

see for example the opening for http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/citations.html#loop for a lower key version of that style (reasonable, considering it was a paper in a refereed conference.)

Haven't played with scsh before, but the thing that struck me as interesting while flipping through this was just how similar Microsoft's powershell is in terms of look-and-feel. I suspect it [scsh] may have been a source of inspiration :)

Does anyone know if there is any relation between this and the scheme shell Sun was working on about 20 years ago?