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		samsaga2 on July 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Starting Forth if you take away the parentheses from Lisp you end with a Forth

progman on July 9, 2015 [–]

Not at all. I have developed in both languages. Forth is almost bare metal, between Assembler and C. Lisp is a high level language. Its abstraction level can be pushed way beyond any other language. DSL creation is much easier in Lisp than in Forth.

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