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As someone who has only barely dabbled in either, they feel very similar in philosophy, but I understand that's superficial to some degree. I have a particular
by macintux 5y ago
As someone who has only barely dabbled in either, they feel very similar in philosophy, but I understand that's superficial to some degree.
I have a particular soft spot for Forth in part because W. Richard Stevens (RIP) wrote a primer for Kitt Peak National Observatory:
http://www.forth.org/KittPeakForthPrimer.pdf http://www.forth.org/KittPeakForthPrimer.pdf (PDF)
- mananaysiempre 5y agoVery similar philosophies re building up abstractions, DSLs and DSL-enabling syntax (half of Thinking Forth is essentially proselyzing DSLs), very different philosophies re lowest level of abstraction accessible in the language and compound datatypes. I’d say that neither of those are superficial.