There was a small thread on the Shen Google Group about adding docstrings [1].<p>There is an BSD version of Shen that can be forked and docstrings added by whomever wants to pickup the work. The language&#x27;s footprint is small enough now at the moment, that now&#x27;s the time to get the first chunk done.<p>The BSD version is pretty impressive, and could be turned into a great project if people picked it up. A lot of interest has been expressed, but it is the commercial version that is moving ahead with lots of improvements. Shen&#x27;s creator, Mark Tarver has added Griffin, an optimizing compiler, concurrency, and HTML generator in the form of SML (Shen Markup Language).<p>It is a very fun project. The small set of instructions it is based upon Klambda, has since been ported to many languages - Ruby, Python, Lisp, Haskell and more. The SBCL port is the main one. Aditya Siram (Deech) has just created an Elisp port, shen-elisp! [2]<p>[1]  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!topic&#x2F;qilang&#x2F;FHUNMvOyu2U" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!topic&#x2F;qilang&#x2F;FHUNMvOyu2U</a>
[2]  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;deech&#x2F;shen-elisp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;deech&#x2F;shen-elisp</a>