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

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From: Didier Verna
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girosenth <girosenth@india.com> wrote:

> AND, if I must break the nested function structure, will I not be
> visiting the forbidden territory of imperative programming ?

  Why do you think imperative programming is forbidden in Lisp ?

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From: Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr>
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Subject: Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?
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