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03/24/2005: "The latest entrant for the "Special Place in Hell" competition..."
Zoidberg (a.k.a. zoid) provides a modular Perl shell written, configured, and operated entirely in Perl. It aspires to be a fully operational login shell with all the features one normally expects. But it also gives direct access to Perl objects and data structures from the command line, and allows you to run Perl code within the scope of your command line.
Don't get me started about what a waste of time and resources this could be...