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From: nigel@ese.essex.ac.uk (Nigel S.H. Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Real programmers
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Date: 17 Jul 89 19:27:18 GMT
References: <10202@dasys1.UUCP> <33180@apple.Apple.COM>
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In article <33180@apple.Apple.COM> nobody@noao.edu writes:
>In the referenced article, aj-mberg@dasys1.UUCP (Micha Berger) writes:
>>Real programmers use FORTH, and know that cc's main significance is its use in
>>TV guide to tell deaf people their bosex will put text on the bottom of the
>>screen.
>
>Forth is Lisp, badly reimplemented on inadequate hardware by an
>astronomer who didn't know what he was doing.
>
>	nyah!
>
>	Erik

How can anything be more badly designed or implemented than Lisp, its
name says it all...




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