On Jan 12, 2008 9:50 PM, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Why? BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
