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Sweet! I learned to program by writing a Forth compiler. Was an excellent way to learn. I only discovered Lisp much later, and definitely like what I see, but haven't gotten around to learning it properly yet.

Interestingly, Lisp people think that Lisp doesn't have much syntax -- Forth has even less. It's basically words separated by spaces, and that's it.

Is it just me, or has Forth been getting quite a bit of mention recently? Perhaps it's because the Forth-derived Factor language is getting more popular.




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