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: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:14

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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!"

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