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Here's a fairly concise explanation of what Shen is:

http://www.lambdassociates.org/shen.htm

TL;DR: Shen is the successor to Qi, a functional programming language in the Lisp family.

Is it appropriate? I wish it weren't, but there's little room in the title to explain Shen (and then it would be "the successor to the Qi language", and one cannot leave post descriptions. But a username/password aren't necessary; I don't know what you clicked.

I followed the "Shen 1.7 available" link, which points to https://groups.google.com/group/qilang/browse_thread/thread/.... I have always been prompted to login when going to Google Groups threads; I don't know about others. I'd be very happy if there were a way around it.

(If I'd noticed QiLang in the URL, I guess I would have had a better idea about what I was seeing ….)

http://jng.imagine27.com/articles/2011-09-23-063927_shen_kl_...

You are probably correct - bad title. I cannot edit it now, alas.