Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?

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From: w_a_x_man
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:09

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On Jan 6, 1:20 pm, "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <p...@informatimago.com>
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> so it becomes readable again and you can see there's a bug in the Forth
> expression.    Since the syntax become suddenly much simplier, we don't
> need to prefix operators with 'F' anymore.

Since Forth is a low-level language, operators aren't overloaded.

"F+" adds two floats, "+" adds two integers.

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