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Re:Show HN: PlanckForth – Bootstrapping an interpreter from ... by nickcw on Monday December 06, 2021 @05:39AM (#29458127)
bootstrap.fs is a thing of beauty

https://github.com/nineties/planckforth/blob/main/bootstrap....

It starts off looking like line noise (the very simple interpreter defined in hex) and gradually turns into the forth we know and love.

Fantastic!

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Re:Show HN: PlanckForth – Bootstrapping an interpreter from ... by vanderZwan on Monday December 06, 2021 @06:48AM (#29458581)
I love that the first thing added is support for comments, followed by a comment explaining that we just added comments and how it did so.

"Before I can explain anything, I have to implement the ability to explain things and then explain that I just added the ability to explain things."

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Re:Show HN: PlanckForth – Bootstrapping an interpreter from ... by qgc on Friday December 10, 2021 @07:40AM (#29509166)
It is most certainly inspired, in style, by JonesForth [1] which is a classic moment in the "Programming Pedagogy Hall of Fame."

[1] https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...

[2] https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...

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