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Don, on any Lisp or Forth or other post on niche languages on this site, there is a long comment from you going into deep detail about its history and evolution
by sph 3y ago
Don, on any Lisp or Forth or other post on niche languages on this site, there is a long comment from you going into deep detail about its history and evolution.
Your wealth of knowledge is incredible, and it is thanks to hackers like you that I've been spending the past year rediscovering the roots of computing, the wonders of Lisp, Smalltalk and, this past week in particular, Forth ( HONK ) .
These days my ~/Desktop and printer spool are full of papers from the 70s and 80s that, compared to the clunky world of Javascript and UNIX clones, feel like science fiction.
So thank you for broadening our horizons, and teaching code monkeys like me the lost art of programming computers. Your contributions are invaluable.
- jacquesm 3y agoDon is a veritable walking encyclopedia of whole chapters of computer history. Priceless.