Python w/Forth Runtime????

[Christopher Browne]

In the last exciting episode, 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?
>> 
>
> 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.

Python is not alone in this.

Common Lisp conspicuously supports multiple simultaneous paradigms.
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