Re:My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)
by arethuza on Friday October 04, 2019 @07:25AM
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Speaking of NeWS fun - I remember playing tricks on a colleague by logging into their display server using psh and manually tweaking the transformation matrix for a terminal window so that it very gradually rotated as he was using it. Of course, as it was NeWS (actually HyperNeWS) everything just worked until the rotation became really obvious.
Re:My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)
by thelazydogsback on Friday October 04, 2019 @12:05PM
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NeWS was so ahead of its time -- and the vector-based approach and the lack of color made it a please to work with and look at.
Re:My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)
by smartmic on Friday October 04, 2019 @05:25AM
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In addition to Postscript, I would also mention Factor (https://factorcode.org/). It is quite approachable to learn stack based programming.
Postscript should get a mention, as its a related surviving stack language (though higher level - but in the spirit of the article, for a very domain-specific purpose), even if printer drivers do all the coding. Though they changed most of the word names to protect the innocent: http://hyperpolyglot.org/stack
(And lest we forget display Postscript a la Sun NeWS - boy that was fun stuff! - still the coolest way to write your own desktop widgets)