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One of the reasons why Forth has suffered in the greater computing community is, “If you’ve seen one Forth, you’ve seen one Forth.” I love Forth. One of the fi
by gaius 10y ago
One of the reasons why Forth has suffered in the greater computing community is, “If you’ve seen one Forth, you’ve seen one Forth.”
I love Forth. One of the first things I do on any new machine is apt-get or yum it. But I have never managed to write an actually useful program in it. It just isn't well-suited to the use cases of the vast majority of programmers. And I say that as a guy who has shoehorned OCaml, Haskell and Elisp into "real work"...