Forth like interpreter

[William Tanksley]

On 20 Mar 2000 09:29:30 -0600, Tres Seaver wrote:
>William Tanksley <wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net> wrote:
><snip>
>>It's interesting that for all the time Lisp people spend talking about
>>metaprogramming (programs which write programs) the most commonly used
>>metaprogrammed language isn't even vaguely similar to Lisp.  (Anybody
>>care to guess?)

>PostScript -- what did I win? :)

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>Forth was the first "brain-bender" language I learned, and the one which
>caused me to learn assembler.  I still credit Forth with making me Lisp-
>impaired, via a kind of hysteresis.

I'd have to say the same -- although I learned Forth before I learned
Lisp.  I suppose it had that effect on me, although the problem was
entirely psychological -- I heard all of the people talking about Lisp's
minimalist syntax, and was promptly disgusted by how syntax-heavy it was
compared to Forth.  A pity, really -- it's a good language.  Just not as
good as They say it is, that's all.  :-)

But then not even Python is THAT good.

<save life="my own">It's better.</save>

>Tres Seaver           tseaver at palladion.com       713-523-6582

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-William "Billy" Tanksley