On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 07:37:28PM -0800, Bob La Quey wrote:
I do not know about LISP but I have written a _lot_ of FORTH code in the past. One extremely powerful feature of FORTH is the ability to interrupt the compiler and then run _any_ FORTH program one wishes, including deep introspection of the existing code in order to compute anything, and then to return to compiling using the result that has been computed. To say this is powerful is a serious understatement. I am not quite sure just how such things are done (if at all) in more conventional languages though I suspect that it is something advanced LISPers do all of the time.
Lisp and FORTH have a lot of similarities in this regard. I do think that lisp does a better job of making itself into a useful programming language, even for large problems. Dave -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
