Re: looking for a language with any of the following 4 charachteristics (all 4 would be nice).

[http://www.screw.csoft.net/~robert (Robert)]

 > From: http://www.ureach.com/~Slarty (zaphod)
 > Date: 11 Feb 2002 17:57:29 -0800
 >
 > My idea of the perfect language would be something like any of the
 > four following:
 > 
 > 1)Logo that concentrated on lisp tricks and didn't even HAVE
 > turtle-graphics
 > 2)Forth w/out all that OS STUFF, and stack STUFF.
 > 3)lisp without so many parentheses
 > 4)C without structured programming concepts
 > 
 > Anyone got a good candidate?
 > 
 > I'll even let you tell me how dumb I am for wanting what I want.
 > It seems that the common denominator of the four languages I like is
 > that they are all extensible, and I think all could be said to have
 > charachteristics of functional languages.
 > 
 > Someone could make me extraordinarilly happy by a real nice thorough
 > analysis of my essentially stupid and trivial thought(s) here.

You could use Logo in Scheme:

http://www.colorstudy.com/static/ianb/old

Logo is a language without parentheses (mostly).  This implementation
gives you the power of Scheme with the simple syntax of Logo.