Re: n00b saying "hi"

From: Darren New <dnew@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:44:17 -0700

Mark Carter wrote:

In the back of my mind, I always figure that I /should/ be using a bigboy language like Lisp or Forth

I find Lisp and Forth and Tcl all to be fairly close together, conceptually speaking. They all treat code as data, they all encourage the creation of a domain-specific language for solving the problem in, and so on. (Not sure I could call Forth a "big boy" language, mind, tho I love it myself.)

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