Smalltalk, Forth and Lisp are mentioned specifically and in some detail in the Avail docs, see e.g. [0]. The designer apparently has had extensive experience wi

Smalltalk, Forth and Lisp are mentioned specifically and in some detail in the Avail docs, see e.g. [0]. The designer apparently has had extensive experience with all of them. I can't find the reference now but at some point in the stuff I was reading last night was a mini-diatribe about Lisp, to the effect that it has "no syntax" and although it can indeed describe any problem, when you finish the solution doesn't "look like" the problem statement in any way. [0]https://www.availlang.org/about-avail/history/index.html https://www.availlang.org/about-avail/history/index.html