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>It's unreadable to the point of uselessness
you'd think because of how often people say this about lisp, you'd know better than to say something so stupid. you find it unreadable because you bitched out and never learned it.
>Nobody uses it as a standalone language to write large systems though
same problem as above, you're a victim of your own ignorance. you see no prolog because you don't spend any time with it, you don't run in any prolog circles, you have zero interaction with the language at all. unbeknownst to you, there were prolog machines concurrent to lisp machines. kernels and operating systems written top to bottom in prolog. you can thank them for much of the groundwork of multi-threading that's happened in the last 40 years.
these days it's still all over the place. you don't have to search very hard to find large commercial systems built as knowledge-bases.
https://sicstus.sics.se/customers.html
datalog being a much more restricted prolog is common to be embedded as a minor part of a larger system.
>What makes Forth truly powerful is how small the implementation usually is
>You can do the same with Lisp, using the same techniques
what makes forth truly powerful is that it maps to a real cpu architecture much more cleanly than a lisp. serious implementations not made as a hobby project by a d-grade programmer in 2 days have nothing to do with being "small". they're more or less just an optimizing assembler for a specific platform.
>It's basically an older, worse Lua.
and it's clear to me you have zero real experience with any of these languages. how can you say something so blatantly stupid? tcl is a completely different language to lua. it has far more in common with csh and awk. until recently it wasn't even garbage collection because it literally didn't need it.

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