On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Ivan Warren wrote:
Adam Thornton wrote:
Nothing except maybe Lisp rivals Forth in terms of expressive-power-
per-byte-of-language. But then a stack is just a bunch of parens
turned on its side.
I'd put APL first in that category !
I think I was unclear.
What I meant was not "per-byte-of-program" but "per-byte-of-compiler-
or-interpreter". That is, it's relatively easy to create a very,
very small Forth interpreter--suitable for running in a tiny
environment--which nevertheless is a very powerful language.
Now, don't try this trick with Common Lisp, but some early Lisps and
some dialects are quite suitable for implementation in not-much-room-
at-all.
Adam
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