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A different account of Forth, which convinced me at least to stay away from it: http://www.yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.html http://www
by lkozma 16y ago
A different account of Forth, which convinced me at least to stay away from it:
http://www.yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.html http://www.yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machi...
- dwc 16y agoI read that a while back also. I'm afraid you got the wrong impression. Forth is another tool, to be used when appropriate. It seems best used when you can adopt the whole Forth worldview, which goes far beyond the typical mental shifts required to switch between, say, C and Lisp. As I understand it, Forth shines when you look at the entirety of a project and are prepared to find the leanest, most elegant solution to the exact problem, not limited to writing programs for commodity hardware. Forth people are kind of like Motie Engineers[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God%27s_Eye#Moties http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God%27s_Eye#Moties