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From: travis@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Gregory Michael Travis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Re: Real programmers
Keywords: forth, lisp
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Date: 17 Jul 89 18:40:28 GMT
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In article <7135@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> bouma@cs.purdue.EDU (William J. Bouma) writes:
$     lisp and lisp can be written in forth. Big deal!

Big Deal?  Do you know how elegantly it can be done?  Does that matter?  Sure
it does.  abstract languages like lisp, and forth (sort of) are amazingly
expressive, and it is no useless fact that they can implement one another.

$Bill <bouma@cs.purdue.edu>  ||  ...!purdue!bouma 

			Gregory Michael Travis