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Forth is awesome in situations where you've got a small environment, with crap tools, and you need to do some iterative development. In a pinch, you could hand
by eschneider 2y ago
Forth is awesome in situations where you've got a small environment, with crap tools, and you need to do some iterative development. In a pinch, you could hand assemble a Forth kernel and just burn it on an EEPROM and away you go. There are usually nicer alternatives today, but when you had to build your tools up from nothing, it was a very reasonable option.
- dreamcompiler 2y agoCorrect. You can build a Forth compiler from hand-typed hex machine code. It will be a bit easier if you have an assembler handy, but that's not essential. Trying to build a Lisp compiler this way would be madness.