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I'm not sure I'd classify Forth as higher level than C; in many ways, it operates on abstractions more akin to assembler. In every way, it's really, really stra
by jfb 13y ago
I'm not sure I'd classify Forth as higher level than C; in many ways, it operates on abstractions more akin to assembler. In every way, it's really, really strange.
- JulianMorrison 13y agoAgreed. Typeless, completely unsafe, treats RAM as a contiguous byte array with a dictionary growing one way and data stack growing the other, allows using the return stack as scratch space... it's very asm-ish.
- evincarofautumn 13y agoIt is a very good way of managing complexity, though, at the level you would write a program in assembly. And higher-level stack languages (such as Factor) bring that same degree of complexity management to application-land.