Re: [colorforth] Hello - and where to begin?
- Subject: Re: [colorforth] Hello - and where to begin?
- From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:47:13 -0800
Gwenhwyfaer wrote:
On 23/01/2008, I wrote:
On 23/01/2008, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well ... I've always thought there really were only three innovative
languages -- Lisp, APL and Forth. I view Haskell, ML, Prolog, Erlang,
and all the other functional languages as specialized dialects of Lisp.
I see where you're coming from, but Algol-60 belongs on that list as well.
And Forth could be argued to be a dialect of Lisp - albeit one shorn
down to its barest essentials.
(sorry to double-reply)
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I actually view Forth as the "dual" of Lisp in a sense.
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