Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?

[jacko]

On Jan 2, 7:14 pm, w_a_x_man <w_a_x_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jan 2, 6:59 am, Doug Hoffman <glide...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 1/1/11 2:04 AM, girosenth wrote:
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> > > How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel
> > > functional language to the level of FORTH ?
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> > > There are many people who have trivia complaints about parens in lisp,
> > > but I dont.
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> > > LISP is a prefix notation.
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> > > sequence of operations would look like this on operands (ops) :
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> > > (f ops (g ops (h ops (j ops (k ops (l ops ))...))))
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> > > How do you make it readable ?
> > > How do you home to the center or centers ?
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> > > (f (g (h (j (k (l ops)))...)))
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> > > is easy to read or
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> > > ops l k j h g f
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> > > Is there a postfix functional language that also gets rid of parens
> > > and is not as primitive as FORTH or POSTSCRIPT ?
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> > Forth remains only as primitive as you want it to be.
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> That is equally true of assembly language.
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> Forth is a low-level language used primarily for programming embedded
> applications such as controlling the flushing of a toilet.
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> "Forth, the toilet-flusher!"

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