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Re:Why bother with _any_ programming language? by eru on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @01:02PM (#1595253)
Just to pick one aspect:

> One object oriented, one functional.

There's more to it. Imperative (but not oop) like C, logical (like Prolog), or whatever Fourth [1] does.

[1] Fourth is imperative, in a way, but it can make heavy use of meta-programming.

Re:Why bother with _any_ programming language? by bitemyapp on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @02:24PM (#1595534)
Forth. It's called Forth. As in Go Forth.

And Forth is a concatenative stack language.

Re:Why bother with _any_ programming language? by eru on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @07:36PM (#1596603)
Thanks for the correction of the typo.