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Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> writes:
> It seems to me that JS is the new Forth. You get really good JIT
> results and an interpreter. ... That's not to say that Forth is
> dead. It's a very productive tool and a great language for building
> languages. JS will always look like JS. Forth is an artisan language
> where simplicity of form is the foundation.

Nobody remembers Lisp...