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Curtis "Ovid" Poe

@GeePawHill I hear so many people saying that they adore Forth. It looks interesting. I should give it a try some day.

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Solomon Foster

@ovid @GeePawHill Forth sits in this glorious place where it is just barely one step more sophisticated than assembly code BUT it offers you a lot of the same language design power that Lisp does. You can think of it as roughly a C-equivalent language you can easily write yourself in a week.

But other than its ability to let you easily tool up a wee DSL from scratch in a day or two, it's probably been at least 30 years since I was programming in a situation where using Forth would make sense.

GeePawHill

@colomon @ovid It was a time when pre-existing code was far less prevalent than now.

I *do* see the challenge.

But it's so fast, so simple, so compact, so elegant, I think it would be a joyful challenge to swing at.

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