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Tl;dr: > The Forth way of focusing on just the problem you need to solve seems to more or less require that the same person or a very tightly united group focu
by akkartik 7y ago
Tl;dr:
> The Forth way of focusing on just the problem you need to solve seems to more or less require that the same person or a very tightly united group focus on all three of these things, and pick the right algorithms, the right computer architecture, the right language, the right word size, etc. I don't know how to make this work. My experience is, you try to compress the 3 absolutely necessary layers to 2, you get a disaster.
- sifar 7y agoThe other end is the conventional development method where each work in their own silos without a detailed idea of the others. This leads to bloated systems.
- akkartik 7y agoPrecisely: https://plforums.org/practice/minimal-features-required-for-an-extensible-language#post_65 https://plforums.org/practice/minimal-features-required-for-... That comment dates from before I built this: https://github.com/akkartik/mu#readme https://github.com/akkartik/mu#readme