> ...one to one with that simple machine.
Recommendation: Forth (cf. colorForth)
Warning: Save snapshot of current mental state/perspective/worldview first, to guarantee sustained mental health :P
I occasionally do too :P
> Thinking Forth is on my mental shelf for so long. ML and Lisps keep delaying reading it.
I know the feeling... but I'm still at the "Lisp looks like parenthetical line noise, and what even is* ML?" stage, so I haven't yet tackled those.
Forth, to me, seems to be bring out the "mechanicalness" of the computer, in a weird sort of way. Of course it's just another programming language, but the philosophy and mentality behind it seems to lean in that direction. I like it for that, and its minimalism. :D
I kinda understand the mechanicalness of Forth, if you mean that there's only a few principles and that even 'syntax' is built on that. The kind of less is more that frees your mind
That's very subjective, I'm in a minimalist passeist phase.
[1] Except for the non isolated driver model.