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While it's cool how little plumbing Forth needs to be extensible via new control structures, I do make mistakes as does everyone I've ever worked with, and life

While it's cool how little plumbing Forth needs to be extensible via new control structures, I do make mistakes as does everyone I've ever worked with, and life is too short for yet another platform on which every program blows up randomly because it isn't 100.0% flawless. C at least tries to help a little with typed pointers, so I don't see how Forth could help but be more brittle.

gnosis 15y ago
"C at least tries to help a little with typed pointers, so I don't see how Forth could help but be more brittle." You might be interested in StrongForth, a strong statically typed variant of Forth: http://home.vrweb.de/stephan.becher/forth/ http://home.vrweb.de/stephan.becher/forth/
- evangineer 15y ago
  Too bad StrongForth only works on the Windows command line. There is however StrongForth.f which runs on top of an ANS Forth system: http://home.vrweb.de/stephan.becher/strongforth.f/index.htm http://home.vrweb.de/stephan.becher/strongforth.f/index.htm