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If you are familiar with lisp are there still big benefits to going through the journey again with forth? Or is it just more recursion and expression except via
by djtango 11mo ago
If you are familiar with lisp are there still big benefits to going through the journey again with forth? Or is it just more recursion and expression except via a stack rather than a list
- dreamcompiler 11mo agoYou learn things with Forth that you don't learn with Lisp. Foremost among these is the relationship between the highlevel language and the underlying computer. In many Common Lisps you can write functions in assembler if you need to, but in a Forth compiler the assembler is right there. In fact if you have a native assembler it's very easy to bootstrap a baby Forth on top of it and then use that baby Forth to build a complete Forth. No C required. The feeling you get from doing this is one of complete mastery of the computation process. It's awesome.