[Gllug] Speaker Suggestion

[Tethys]

Richard Jones writes:

>Well, no, given that Lisp is pretty much a superset of every other
>programming language[1].
>
> [...]
>
>[1] Except, perhaps Forth ?

Just curious... what makes you say that? I'm certainly not aware of
anything in Forth that couldn't be expressed in Lisp.Is it really
a superset, though? Is there anything you can do in Lisp that you
couldn't do in C, for example (or vice versa)? Yes, each language
has different levels of native support for various things, and Lisp
is undeniably more flexible, but could you emulate Lisp behaviour
via a C program? Sure. So by your logic, C is a superset of Lisp :-)

Tet
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