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> With all the advantages, it is unfortunate that Forth lost out to C language over the years and have been reduced to a niche. Per ChatGPT: due to C's broader
by Animats 1y ago
> With all the advantages, it is unfortunate that Forth lost out to C language over the years and have been reduced to a niche. Per ChatGPT: due to C's broader appeal, standardization, and support ecosystem likely contributed to its greater adoption and use in mainstream computing.
Oh, please. I've written in Forth. It's useful when you have to do a cram job to fit in a really tiny machine. Otherwise, no.
- spragl 1y agoIndeed. Why did grass shears loose out to lawnmowers? The question is misguided, they are two different categories. The interesting question is why Forth lost out to BASIC on the home computers. There were a few that were Forth based, and there were RPL on calculators, so that whole programming paradigm could conceivably have caught on. I wonder how that would have affected other kinds of programming...
- FarmerPotato 1y agoIt caught on with me. TI BASIC and TI FORTH were my first and second programming environments. But FORTH wasn’t going to built-in. I think only Jupiter Ace ever did.