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I wonder if the same semantics that make Forth simple and fast can be used with another (higher-level) syntax to make it easier to write in, kind of like how C
by sbjs 8y ago
I wonder if the same semantics that make Forth simple and fast can be used with another (higher-level) syntax to make it easier to write in, kind of like how C replaced Assembly. It could become a new family of languages that might rival modern high-level languages in the same way CL Lisp tried to shake things up by being both low-level and high-level at the same time.
- vanderZwan 8y agoYou might be interested in looking up concatenative languages. There's a wiki[0]. I really like Joy in the abstract sense. Factor made a few waves a decade ago but has kind of lost steam[1]. It's still being developed though[2]. Kitten looks promising but develops at a snail pace because it's one guy doing it[3]. Not a dig against him, mind you! [0] http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Front%20Page http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Front%20Page [1] http://factorcode.org/ http://factorcode.org/ [2] https://github.com/factor/factor/ https://github.com/factor/factor/ [3] http://kittenlang.org/ http://kittenlang.org/