Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Abersoft Forth disassembled Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 01:30:54 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <11acd7ee-735d-4006-87df-bb44665e82b7@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: n4wpt9zq8xR26Ttf9mo2BA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:41946 On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 00:32:51 -0400, wrote: > On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 8:47:16 AM UTC-7, Mark Wills wrote: >> They used Forth to implement Lisp... >> Did anyone else go warm and fuzzy when they read that? :-) > > Do you know Lisp, Mark? > > I know a little Lisp, but not enough to implement Lisp (in any language) If the two of you remember, I posted a list here years ago which showed that more than a few Lisps were built up from a very small set of words, much like some interpreted implementations of Forth. The list included the words used. I.e., it's bottom of this post: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.forth/KHw28PKZXUk/JrXcjrYshxAJ Usenet msg-id > --- I'm not aware of any reason why Forth couldn't be used though --- ... > C was used in AutoLisp (derived from XLisp). Imagine that ... Clearly, it's far from the first time C has been used to implement a language in whole or part. Stop trolling me Hugh. Rod Pemberton -- Just how many texting and calendar apps does humanity need?