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This is a strange article imo.

I was expecting to see FORTH in bare metal C or ASM.

There is a common myth about newbie programmers that FORTH is write-only and that you need to type everything in one line, without comments or function calls etc.

Writing forth is super easy especially if you have a stack machine at your disposal. For example when you are building your own virtual cpu/architecture with assembler and compiler.

It's more trivial than to understand any JavaScript framework lol

Research FORTH more guys - it doesn't need to be strange and hard :)

ps. Lisp SUCKS

/rant



I was with you 'till the last line. :P


IMO Lisp is harder to implement than Forth, and LESS readable, butt MAYBE i fell into the same trap as others with Forth. hahaha


actually I think Lisp is easier to implement than Forth, buth is it really Forth if the internals aren’t discussed? (E.g. Word secondary, threaded code, etc)


Forth does not specify threaded code. Implementation is left to the implementor.

Internally Forth can be direct threaded code, indirect threaded code, byte code, sub-routine calls or optimized native code.


> There is a common myth about newbie programmers that FORTH is write-only and that you need to type everything in one line, without comments or function calls etc.

By contrast, in APL it's not a myth at all.




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