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Re:Lisp in Space by mek6800d2 on Monday May 02, 2022 @10:40PM (#31243826)
A little late to the discussion! The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL) uses or used to use FORTH for non-critical satellite flight software (and Ada for mission-critical software). Back in 2009, I came across this 2006 JHU/APL paper about compiling a subset of Haskell down to FORTH for execution on a special-purpose processor: Andrew J. Harris and John R. Hayes, "Functional Programming on a Stack-Based Embedded Processor". ( http://home.iae.nl/users/mhx/Forth_functional.pdf )

I don't know if they pursued the use of Haskell any further or even if they still use FORTH. In 2009, when I read this paper and others from them, I discovered that the Lab had hosted a by-then-defunct FORTH Users Group, not exactly an auspicious sign.

Re:Lisp in Space by ncmncm on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @08:41PM (#31255475)
Forth and Haskell aren't really so different, ultimately. Fans of each would never admit that.
Re:Lisp in Space by pyinstallwoes on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @04:21AM (#31258003)
Examples on why or how?
Re:Lisp in Space by ncmncm on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @10:50AM (#31261254)
J/k.