Interesting thread, but what does this have to do with Swift Forth?
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:08 AM, David McClain <dbm_at_refined-audiometrics.com
> wrote:

> 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
> >=20
> >=20
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