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Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language by astrobe_ on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @06:05AM (#18228070)
Short answer: no.

Longer answer: actually another common feature is that both can execute code at compile-time (macros).

Full answer: really, no. They are fundamentally different: Lisp is a decent symbolic language, Forth is a decent portable assembler.

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Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language by HelloNurse on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @10:18AM (#18229544)
Really, no. They are fundamentally identical executable lambda calculus, despite Lisp's attempts to look abstract by shrouding itself in parentheses and Forth's attempts to look like "portable assembler" by exposing most implementation details.
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