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> Forth code ends up deeply personal, and specific to the current task. That's the point though. You create a domain specific language using Forth and solve y
by snarfy 10y ago
> Forth code ends up deeply personal, and specific to the current task.
That's the point though. You create a domain specific language using Forth and solve your domain specific problems with it.
- vanderZwan 10y agoIt wasn't a critique! I find Forth and concatenative languages in general incredibly fascinating. I'm just pointing out that it comes with a trade-off
- coldtea 10y agoYes, but create "other programmers don't understand my DSL" problem. DSLs come at a cost.
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago...And Forth's DSL's are worse than most, by virtue of having minimal syntax, and being bound by the stack. So it's not just the Lisp problem again: it's actually worse.