Create your own FORTH programming language

He could go further with the lisp comparison. In the abstract, forth is lisp with fixed argument counts (i.e., without parens) written backwards (i.e., on a stack).

If you went to someone who knew either language and described those two differences, they could easily make a reasonable version of the other.

Sweet! I learned to program by writing a Forth compiler. Was an excellent way to learn. I only discovered Lisp much later, and definitely like what I see, but haven't gotten around to learning it properly yet.

Interestingly, Lisp people think that Lisp doesn't have much syntax -- Forth has even less. It's basically words separated by spaces, and that's it.

Is it just me, or has Forth been getting quite a bit of mention recently? Perhaps it's because the Forth-derived Factor language is getting more popular.