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.re: My opinion re LISP

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Gareth McCaughan wrote:

> Oh, and if we're playing the intuitive-appeal-to-novices 
> game, consider 
> 
>     (loop for n from 1 upto 10 sum n) ==> 55 
> 
> and try to find another language in which that could be 
> expressed as neatly. :-)

Ruby:

(1..10).reduce :+
    ==>55

In Forth?


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