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Are any HN users using forth in your personal life at work? I haven't seen it mentioned here much.
by csmeder 16y ago
Are any HN users using forth in your personal life at work? I haven't seen it mentioned here much.
- alnayyir 16y agoForth is the Unabomber of programming languages. Most people who admire it (or him) don't say so in public.
- vineeth 16y agoIt's used as a shell interface in Open Firmware. So, it's in more places than most realize. BTW, the phrase "personal life at work" is amusing.
- csmeder 16y agohaha, oops. I meant to say "personal life or work"...
- kabdib 16y agoI have seen FORTH used successfully in a few embedded systems. It's also a great language for doing initial hardware bringup (really easy to write functions that frob register-level stuff). In my experience it does not appear to scale very well to medium-sized projects (2-3 engineers for 3+ months). The best FORTH programmers I knew were pretty pragmatic about the language, and were frank about its limitations. The worst FORTH programmers thought it was totally wonderful for absolutely everything, which is of course a recipe for disaster with any language.