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I have done some Real Work ™ in Lisp, but dear deity, Forth... that to me really is you can do anything you want to - in such a scary way I have never worked up
by jacobush 7y ago
I have done some Real Work ™ in Lisp, but dear deity, Forth... that to me really is you can do anything you want to - in such a scary way I have never worked up the courage to actually learn it.
- astrobe_ 7y agoIf you go full Forth you start with writing your own interpreter, so what you are scared of is really your own shadow. And that's one of the qualities of Forth: to stop worrying, stop being scared of yourself, stop being scared of the future... Or more precisely it learns you to fear the right thing: namely the Great Evil of Accidental Complexity, which often disguise itself as necessary evil.
- jacobush 7y agoThat resonates... I'm actually afraid of what I may become taking that path. :)