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I was first exposed to Forth by a member of the PSU Timex-Sinclair UG (while I was still in high-school) and (much) later used it to program a system that contr

by smoyer 14y ago

I was first exposed to Forth by a member of the PSU Timex-Sinclair UG (while I was still in high-school) and (much) later used it to program a system that controlled the terminals used by stock traders. I'm not saying I'd want to go back to writing software in Forth, but it was a strong language for control systems ... perhaps the Erlang of its day?

gngeal 14y ago
Why not? Much better than assembly. I believe that even today, a sound asynchronous stack design (much simpler, therefore with asynchronicity still being a viable option) would consume less joules per unit of computation than any current ARM/x86/RISC nonsense. (You don't actually have to program in the Forth machine code, it's just that it's still a good medium for many interesting high-level languages.)