From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 4 17:39:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20720 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 17:39:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20710 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 17:39:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA06074; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 12:09:34 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA06829; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 12:09:34 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981105120934.X784@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 12:09:34 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Andrzej Bialecki , Peter Jeremy Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: lisp vs. Forth References: <98Nov4.211907est.40336@border.alcanet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Andrzej Bialecki on Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 12:20:31PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [respecting jkh's implicit wishes and following up to -chat] On Wednesday, 4 November 1998 at 12:20:31 +0100, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Peter Jeremy wrote: > >> I prefer lisp for non-trivial work, but can get by in forth. You >> can write illegible code in any language, so I don't think that >> argument holds much weight. A forth kernel is much smaller than >> lisp because there's no need for garbage collection or tagged pointers. >> (The downside is that forth doesn't have garbage collection or >> runtime typing :-). > > ...and some people consider it an advantage of Forth :-). You simply > fetch/put an N-bit value, and _you_ should know what it means. This somewhat limits what it's *allowed* to mean, unfortunately. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message