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> Forth is not the language. Forth the language captures nothing, it's a moving target... Forth is the approach to engineering aiming to produce as small, simple and optimal system as possible, by shaving off as many requirements of every imaginable kind as you can.

This has been something on my mind recently: I feel like as a software engineer I spend a lot of time working with abstractions designed to contain complexity, and I really appreciate it when I find the rare few that do so successfully (or get the buzz from having done so myself!).

But there's something even more appealing and satisfying about simplifying the model of the problem so that it's more elegant where that's possible.



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