Forth: The Hacker’s Language

Re:Forth: The Hacker’s Language by colomon on Sunday January 29, 2017 @11:38AM (#13514915)

For what it's worth, after a bit of research [1], I discovered Commodore Basic 2.0 had simple FOR loops (which I think I used and forgot), and the ability to create functions which encode a single one-variable mathematical expression (which I don't think I ever knew about).

[1] https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/DEF

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Re:Forth: The Hacker’s Language by qwertyuiop924 on Sunday January 29, 2017 @12:25PM (#13515252)

I've heard the BBC BASIC was quite a lot better, but I've never worked in it myself...

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Re:Forth: The Hacker’s Language by colomon on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:58PM (#13553997)

I forget what the name was, but I used a Microsoft Basic on the IBM PC platform a few years later which was light years better than the C64 Basic. Still gave it up ASAP after learning C, mind you.

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