asciilifeform: ( really, 'refal'-m )

asciilifeform: you can download refal!

asciilifeform: for fucks sake, the guy who invented refal, is still active (or his son..?)

asciilifeform: (refal is what happened when su academics went 'they lisp? us too! but CATCH UP AND OUTRUN AMERIKKA'

asciilifeform: does he also use refal ?????

asciilifeform: as i had to excavate, e.g., 'Refal'.

asciilifeform: !s refal

asciilifeform: aaaand don't forget Refal!

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu could have ended up writing monte carlo sims for implosion tampers on gigantic trinary computer. in refal.

asciilifeform: bounce: Forth is an example of 'lisp' re-invented by an outsider. there is another example - 'refal'. (soviet)

asciilifeform: !s refal

asciilifeform: 'all source code in REFAL, available on magnetized wire.'

asciilifeform: http://spsc.googlecode.com/files/Turchin.-The.Language.REFAL.-.The.Theory.of.Compilation.and.Metasystem.Analysis.%281980%29.djvu

asciilifeform blows dust off Turchin's 'the algorithmic language Refal.'

asciilifeform: prob. 'REFAL' rather than forth, though