OOH! Congratulations !!=20

Yes, I am a Lisp expert as well as a former Forth expert. What would you =
like to know? (and we might get booted out of there, so we ought to go =
offline...)

But as for overall environment they share a lot in common. Both are =
highly interactive, incremental development and test, and extensible. A =
decent editor will help you manage all the parentheses... a friend used =
to call Lisp source "oatmeal with angry toenails"

- DM

On Feb 3, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Robert Dickow wrote:

> I've started playing with Lisp. I had to do some DNA protein matching =
and
> analysis routines for a friend in a biomedical informatics program. =
Lisp
> seems potentially as much fun as Forth, if I ever get to figure out =
how to
> manage all the parentheses all over the page. ;-) Some sources make
> comparisons between Lisp and Forth, but I think they're really =
different at
> heart.=20
>=20
> Is anyone in this group familiar enough with working in Lisp and Forth =
to
> make some comments along these lines?
>=20
> Bob Dickow
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