Python w/Forth Runtime????

[Cameron Laird]

In article <3CE5C208.5F41AD8A at tundraware.com>,
Tim Daneliuk  <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:
>Gerhard Häring wrote:
>> 
>> Tim Daneliuk wrote in comp.lang.python:
>> > Python does just what needs doing ... see the end of this piece for why:
>> >
>> >    http://www.tundraware.com/Technology/Bullet/
>> 
>> What's the connection with the Subject of your posting?
>> 
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>At the end of the piece I suggest that a "ideal" language would be one
>which has the paradigmatic richness of Python but whose runtime execution
>environment was reaslized in something very sleek and light like Forth.
>
>The overal article is about the dangers of locking into a single programming
>paradigm (like OO) for everything and that real world problems require
>multiple *simultaneous* paradigms for reasonable solutions.  I think
>Python is almost alone in trying to incroporate that very idea in
>the language.
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This thread has touched on all sorts of other languages, 
including such favorites of mine as Erlang, Lisp, and Oz.
You might also want to look into Lua, which emphasizes
both near-Forthian lightness and Pythonic abstractive power.

We've got a piece on Lua scheduled for publication tomor-
row.  Keep an eye on <URL: http://
starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.misc/lua.html >.
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