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"HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> writes:
> AFAIK Forth and Lisp have little in common - unless Lisp is as equally
> unpopular as Forth, has been characterized more by schism than
> concensus, whose users either have unrealistic expectations of the
> language or an irrational belief in their own genius to provide it.

Yep, that's Lisp all right.  You might like this:

  http://www.shenlanguage.org/lambdassociates/htdocs/blog/bipolar.htm

Still, some mighty powerful systems have been written in Lisp.