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Forth and Lisp/Scheme and TCL are in the same league. However, they are more alien to C programmers, I assume.
by qznc 3y ago
Forth and Lisp/Scheme and TCL are in the same league. However, they are more alien to C programmers, I assume.
- Rochus 3y agoTCL, Forth and Lisp are languages with minimum possible syntax, delegating all higher-level concepts to runtime structures and conventions (e.g. which list position means what), whereas Lua for its syntax and semantics inherited, pruned and elegantly integrated the best features of Modula-2 and other languages. It is true that Lua is more familiar to C developers than the mentioned languages, since both Lua and C look back to the ALGOL ancestry; but Lua - unlike C - clearly follows the Pascal heritage.