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Article #1177Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?
From: jacko
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:22
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:22
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On Jan 2, 7:14 pm, w_a_x_man <w_a_x_...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Jan 2, 6:59 am, Doug Hoffman <glide...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On 1/1/11 2:04 AM, girosenth wrote: > > > > How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel > > > functional language to the level of FORTH ? > > > > There are many people who have trivia complaints about parens in lisp, > > > but I dont. > > > > LISP is a prefix notation. > > > > sequence of operations would look like this on operands (ops) : > > > > (f ops (g ops (h ops (j ops (k ops (l ops ))...)))) > > > > How do you make it readable ? > > > How do you home to the center or centers ? > > > > (f (g (h (j (k (l ops)))...))) > > > > is easy to read or > > > > ops l k j h g f > > > [snip] > > > > Is there a postfix functional language that also gets rid of parens > > > and is not as primitive as FORTH or POSTSCRIPT ? > > > Forth remains only as primitive as you want it to be. > > That is equally true of assembly language. > > Forth is a low-level language used primarily for programming embedded > applications such as controlling the flushing of a toilet. > > "Forth, the toilet-flusher!" C the toilet contents...
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