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

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From: Jerome Baum
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:53
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In article <m2pqsf9yqg.fsf@ccde007.de.goenninger.net>, 
dg1sbg@googlemail.com says...
> Must be the proposal of Mr Oettinger, the German politican now being 
EU
> Commisioner for Energy. Hearing him speaking English very closely
> assemble the "Modern English" as outlined on that page ...
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icOO7Ut1P4Y
> 
> No, I'm not proud of that ...
> 
> Frank

You just have to love the comment:

"I understand only train station"

(To put it into context, that's the text on an ad run by some English 
training business over here in Germany.)
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From: Jerome Baum <jerome@jeromebaum.com>
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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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