From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: D Herring Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ? Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:39:26 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <80ceeca0-1d32-47d1-ba96-feb4d9729c3a@v17g2000yqv.googlegroups.com> <8o9taaFglrU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293988911 3278 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2011 17:21:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 17:21:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 02 18:21:46 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZRcn-0002Dm-1A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:21:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45346 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZRcm-0001li-Bt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:21:44 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!194.109.133.84.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!213.75.85.109.MISMATCH!newsfeed.kpn.net!pfeed09.wxs.nl!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional, comp.lang.lisp, gnu.emacs.help, comp.lang.forth, comp.lang.prolog Original-Lines: 14 Injection-Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 05:39:28 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="Q7hmocNssIwDEuQbezMefg"; logging-data="32040"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Bo6CO0O7rNEf3Ze/H9ZXd" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: <8o9taaFglrU1@mid.individual.net> Cancel-Lock: sha1:5ka60OT/mo8ANAYWGF52pLs41zI= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu comp.lang.functional:69067 comp.lang.lisp:297079 gnu.emacs.help:183836 comp.lang.forth:160249 comp.lang.prolog:43998 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:21:00 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78054 Archived-At: On 01/01/2011 06:56 PM, Pascal Costanza wrote: > On 01/01/2011 08:04, girosenth wrote: >> How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel >> functional language to the level of FORTH ? > > I'm rather wondering how we can improve the readability of (any) > English to the level of German. The classic response: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~choh/german.htm I haven't a clue where this originated. - Daniel