bash trick - prefixing a command?

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

I want to do some shell trickery so that when a user enters a command like:

ls -l

the command is forwarded to another program as an argument. That is, 
what actually gets executed is:

myprog "ls -l"

Is there a way to do that? Basically I want to use bash as transparent 
front end for another program (actually a command parser for some custom 
hardware), while keeping the handy editing and history abilities of bash.

Any suggestions (other than writing my own stripped down and customized 
shell, which I know is an option)?


- Mike