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   Roger L Costello to minf...@arcor.de   
   RE: Re: What attributes of a programming   
   15 Nov 22 11:52:00   
   
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   From: costello@mitre.org   
      
   minf...@arcor.de wrote:   
      
   > use Forth as your toolbox to make your own DSL   
   > and you can go _very_ far without diving into all   
   > those dragon books and gigabyte compilers and   
   > toolsets.   
      
   Fascinating!   
      
   What is it about the Forth programming language that makes it easy to   
   implement DSL's?   
      
   /Roger   
   [It has small efficient implementations, it generally lets you get close to   
   the hardware,   
   and the RPN syntax lets you define new operators that work like the built-in   
   ones. -John]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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