Forth: The Hacker’s Language (2017)

Re:Forth: The Hacker’s Language (2017) by virtualritz on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @10:43AM (#20866939)

I recall Real3D, a DCC app originating from the Amiga and ported to Windows NT in the 90's. It allowed plug-ins to be written in RPL (Real Programming Language) a Forth dialect.

I wrote a 5k line RenderMan RIB exporter for this app in RPL.

I remember how hard this seemed when I started but how natural working in a RPN language felt after only a few hours. It was almost as if the stack had become an extension of my brain.

Trivia: Real3D was eventually rewritten from scratch and is now called Realsoft 3D. Afaik it doesn't support RPL/Forth any more.

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Re:Forth: The Hacker’s Language (2017) by immigrantsheep on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:11PM (#20868030)

That was my first ever 3D app. And Imagine. Before moving to lightwave, still on the Amiga a couple of years later.

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