Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 1 Oct 2024 01:06:32 GMT, rbowman wrote:

I could understand what Scheme was doing but a little voice kept nagging
'Why?'

Lexical binding, with functions as first-class objects. Macros that worked
at the AST structure level, not at the level of tokens or strings. And
those remarkable things called “continuations” ...

That, plus of course garbage collection -- all concepts alien to FORTH.