Re:Lisp moving Forth moving Lisp
by bitwize on Thursday July 30, 2026 @01:49AM
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As I like to say, Forth is the dual of Lisp. They reach the same goal (a programmable programming language) through completely different and complementary methods.
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Re:Lisp moving Forth moving Lisp
by zelphirkalt on Thursday July 30, 2026 @04:42AM
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What would it be called if we add Smalltalk there, as a third option? A "trial"? No wait, that can't be right.
It'd be glib to say that Smalltalk is a Lisp, but Smalltalk's ideas are similar enough to Lisp's that I would put it squarely in the "Lisp camp". The same is true of things like Ruby, about which people have been glib enough to say it's an "acceptable Lisp".