Wrap it in an .app?

With Intel Macs, Rosetta does not emulate BSD programs as it does an .app. I notice, however, that I can easily use the OPEN command to invoke an .app from Terminal. I do this all the time with TextEdit.
This leads to an idea: wrap a BSD program somehow to make it look like an .app, and then invoke it with OPEN. I'm not enough of a Unix expert to know if this is feasible, or easy to do. If, however, somebody out there sees a simple way to do this, or even a partial solution, it could be much appreciated.
I am inspired by the fact that Terminal is, in fact, Terminal.app. Does terminal run in emulation on Intel Macs, or has it fully been recompiled? Can you wrap up Rosetta as a BSD program, and then make it run another BSD program, or emulate the whole of a pre-Intel Terminal.app?
This could amount to a nifty piece of shareware, but I suspect somebody else out there could do it with more facility than I could.
You can't step twice in the same river.

MacLemon --
Firstly, look at my earlier query about "Rosetta AND BSD." Darwin programs will not be emulated, was the definitive answer.
Basically, I want to run Artificial Intelligence sorts of things: Lisp, Haskell, Prolog, etc. I have my hopes up for building MIT/GNU Scheme and SBCL, because they already have running versions using the X86 instruction set, and also have web-pages on how to build for "other Unix Systems." I'm just procrastinating a bit, because of the trouble I had once getting clisp-2.27 to build, finally doing it from a CVS.
I would just like to tweak some professional Unix maven to write a sort of wrapper. To clarify, I use TextEdit as my normal Darwin editor. How? With this alias ...
alias edit='open -a /Applications/TextEdit.app'
Maybe somebody can connive a general way to stick something in /Applications so that the same trick could load something like GNU Prolog.
Hey Apple, you hear this? If this is easy, you could make a bundle selling machines to the AI community!
I promise that when I take the plunge, I will report any success at building things on Intel-Darwin (sounds like a safe-house for Australian covert action).
-- devious dan

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