Re: Forth's list : the multo.

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lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> writes:
> I can agree with that. It's all about the way of thinking. All xt's on
> stacks are maybe just too general? It's an interesting but mind
> blowing thought with a "program" where xt's on stacks execute other
> xt's on stacks without crashing and giving some intelligent results.

Right, that's the whole thing.  You can do it in Forth but you'll
probably have to debug a lot of crashes before you get your thing
working.  Some other languages make it convenient and natural.

Here's a well-known old paper you might like.  The examples in it
are written in Miranda which was a forerunner of Haskell.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/courses/cs345/whyfp.pdf

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Forth's list : the multo. albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-05-30 11:22 +0200
  Re: Forth's list : the multo. minforth@arcor.de - 2017-05-30 07:34 -0700
  Re: Forth's list : the multo. Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-30 10:57 -0700
  Re: Forth's list : the multo. lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-30 11:13 -0700
    Re: Forth's list : the multo. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-05-30 21:30 -0700
      Re: Forth's list : the multo. lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-30 22:09 -0700
        Re: Forth's list : the multo. Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-30 23:25 -0700
          Re: Forth's list : the multo. lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-31 01:36 -0700
            Re: Forth's list : the multo. albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-05-31 10:49 +0200
              Re: Forth's list : the multo. lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-31 02:16 -0700
                Re: Forth's list : the multo. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-06-01 01:11 -0700
                Re: Forth's list : the multo. NN <november.nihal@gmail.com> - 2017-06-01 03:55 -0700
                Re: Forth's list : the multo. foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2017-06-02 07:33 -0700
                Re: Forth's list : the multo. obi65537@gmail.com - 2017-06-02 11:15 -0700
          Re: Forth's list : the multo. lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-31 01:38 -0700
            Re: Forth's list : the multo. NN <november.nihal@gmail.com> - 2017-05-31 03:29 -0700
              Re: Forth's list : the multo. Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-05-31 11:18 -0500
              Re: Forth's list : the multo. "Robert L." <No_spamming@noWhere_7073.org> - 2017-06-03 01:49 +0000
                Re: Forth's list : the multo. Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-06-02 20:46 -0700

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