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Compare it to learning to ride a unicycle. Sure, it's a lot of effort, and bicycles are better in every practical way. But some people put a lot of time into it
by justinpombrio 5y ago
Compare it to learning to ride a unicycle. Sure, it's a lot of effort, and bicycles are better in every practical way. But some people put a lot of time into it and find it fun, and that someone has done it is impressive even if you wouldn't go through the trouble yourself.
- daenz 5y agoMaybe that is the part I am misunderstanding. I'm an experienced engineer and I code for fun, and think that coding a Forth interpreter (or any interpreter) would be fun, but have a very hard time believing that "fun" (versus "trying to impress people") is the primary motivator to using Bash to code an interpreter. But I acknowledge that I could be wrong too. Maybe they had a blast using Bash.
- justinpombrio 5y agoYes, I strongly suspect they're having fun using Bash. I wouldn't find that very fun myself, either, but to each their own.