9 Dec
2006
9 Dec
'06
8:38 a.m.
John Quigley wrote:
Yea, that was a poor statement on my part, and was meant as a mildly sarcastic remark ('mildly,' because I do system development in C, and I do like the language).
A LISPer doing system programming ought to use FORTH :-P
Sorry - couldn't resist. Believe it or not, FORTH and LISP share a lot of the best qualities (though FORTH doesn't use lists or garbage collection).
I've been using FORTH almost as long as I've been trying to learn LISP - except FORTH dialects (and differences) are practically inevitible, whereas Common LISP is Common LISP.