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Programming a Problem-Oriented-Language (1970)
- dang 8y agoSmall discussion from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8387120 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8387120
- krylon 8y ago> Of course I don't expect that you're in a position to choose a computer. It's a little funny and a little sad, but this is as true today as it was back then, but for different reasons.
- rabidrat 8y agoChuck Moore is a genius, and if any self-professed hacker has not dug into the language Forth (including creating an implementation of their own, which is a rite of passage to becoming an "intermediate" Forth programmer), then they have a special treat waiting for them. A lovely antidote, both in form and in practice, to the typical layers of shitcake philosophy that ultimately results in Electron apps ruling the world.
- mietek 8y agoReformatted, with inline figures and corrected references: https://github.com/mietek/pol https://github.com/mietek/pol