Forth vs Lisp
It&#x27;s about as fun and easy to implement a simple thing that looks like a forth as it is to implement a simple thing that looks like a lisp. But that&#x27;s where the ease of forth ends for me.<p>I find forth basically impossible to read even when, at best, authors leave a comment on basically every 1-2 words. Writing it is pretty hard too.<p>In contrast it&#x27;s about as easy to be productive in a lisp (CL or Scheme) as it is in Python or JavaScript (give or take useful 3rd party libraries).<p>Even if they&#x27;re from the same time period and are interesting for being not very Algol-like, I don&#x27;t think it makes a lot of sense to discuss Forth and Lisp in the same conversation. They were both improvements on very different things.