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Lest someone thinks you're exaggerating: http://archive.is/YLh6I http://archive.is/YLh6I Quote: Forth does it differently. There is no syntax, no redundancy,

by marvy 10y ago

Lest someone thinks you're exaggerating: http://archive.is/YLh6I http://archive.is/YLh6I Quote: Forth does it differently. There is no syntax, no redundancy, no typing. There are no errors that can be detected. Forth uses postfix, there are no parentheses. No indentation. Comments are deferred to the documentation. No hooks, no compatibility. Words are never hyphenated. There's no hierarchy. No files. No operating system.

AstralStorm 10y ago
Less useful than assembly which at least allows comments. The only difference is portability, which C does much better already. Forth shoves down your throat its ancient stack model and lack of higher order types.
- marvy 10y ago
  Forth allows comments. The quote is just saying "why bother using them?"
  - piaste 10y ago
    That's like saying "why bother with hyperlinked text? Just put your URLs in a footnote".
    - marvy 10y ago
      Which I notice a lot of commenters here in fact do. (Though to be fair, HN doesn't quite support proper hyperlinks.)