Comment by BoiledCabbage

Between this:

> In the end I want to drop objects into context with exposed methods and it knows the type and what is callable on they type.

And this:

> I'm imagining something more like Rexx with quite high level commands. But that certainly blurs the line between programming language and shell.

It really sounds like you're trying to reinvent powershell.

A shell A Scripting language Everything is a self describing object Piped on the shell With exposed methods to call