My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)

Re:My history with Forth and stack machines (2010) by haolez on Thursday October 03, 2019 @09:43PM (#21154100)

I seriously recommend any programmer to spend an afternoon with FORTH. It gives you a whole new perspective about how to write programs and use computers.

For me, it was a more intense experience than learning Lisp (besides Lisp being really cool!).

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Re:My history with Forth and stack machines (2010) by TurboHaskal on Friday October 04, 2019 @03:58AM (#21155705)

Using Lisp changed how I program (so did Prolog and OCaml for that matter). But Forth and APL changed drastically the way I _view_ programming: If we understand it as communicating our intents to the machine using a language, then abstraction should be nothing more but a function of features, performance and the number of tokens employed.

Say you "refactored" our code by implementing a design pattern straight from the GoF book, yet the number of tokens somehow increased? Sorry pal, no approval for your PR from me.

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Re:My history with Forth and stack machines (2010) by blevin on Friday October 04, 2019 @09:52AM (#21157671)

It is the craziest thing, isn’t it, that programs are meant to be both read by humans and executed by machines which operate at significantly different time scales than us?

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