Python w/Forth Runtime????

[Tim Daneliuk]

Christopher Browne wrote:
> 
> 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.

Could you expand on this a bit?  It has been a *very* long time since I
even looked at Lisp, let along programmed it...

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Tim Daneliuk
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