Wasn't Forth injected with some ideas from Lisp?
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Bob Nash <bob.nash1_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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