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Re:Forth vs Lisp by eatonphil on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @05:09PM (#29259524)
Yeah I can see that but, to make a comparison, just because you can build up high level functions in assembly doesn't make it a comparable language to Python/JavaScript.
Re:Forth vs Lisp by Karrot_Kream on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @05:27PM (#29259669)
I think Forth is unique in that you actually can be both high-level and low-level productive in a single "system", but I can also see the perspective that high-level Forth is more of just a concatenative language than a high level Forth as such. Regardless I think Forth's power is that it can be both a very low level language or a high level runtime.