Re: Hello - and where to begin?
"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <[email protected]>
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Gwenhwyfaer wrote: > On 23/01/2008, I wrote: >> On 23/01/2008, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[email protected]> 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) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > Main web page - http://www.colorforth.com > > I actually view Forth as the "dual" of Lisp in a sense.