The hackt shell is intended as a general purpose tool for manipulating object files, directing fine-grain control over partial compilation, mechanical program transformations and analyses, etc. This project is barely begun. It is merely an object of curiosity at the moment. It currently supports no commands and is, thus, utterly useless. The only feature of the shell is the ability to escape to the parent shell and run commands. For example,
hacksh> !date
Fri May 26 18:20:47 EDT 2006
Not very exciting yet.